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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

A novel

A novel

By Mark Leyner

By Mark Leyner

By Mark Leyner

By Mark Leyner

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $14.00

May 10, 1995 | ISBN 9780679745792

Ebook $4.99

Mar 28, 2012 | ISBN 9780307819611

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    About My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

    Welcome to Mark Leyner’s America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil’s most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

    About My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

    Welcome to Mark Leyner’s America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil’s most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

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    About Mark Leyner

    Mark Leyner is the author of two novels, Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville; two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; and a collection of fiction, plays, and journalism, Tooth Imprints on… More about Mark Leyner

    About Mark Leyner

    Mark Leyner is the author of two novels, Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville; two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; and a collection of fiction, plays, and journalism, Tooth Imprints on… More about Mark Leyner

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Vintage
    May 10, 1995 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679745792

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 28, 2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780307819611

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    Praise

    "I really, really liked it. It’s like nothing else. I laughed out loud in the bathroom." — David Byrne

    Welcome to Mark Leyner’s America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil’s most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

    My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is fiction the brain can dance to, by one of the funniest and most subversive young writers of this or any other decade.

    "Most current fiction is as well made and exciting as floral wallpaper; but here is a writer willing to decorate the room with the contents of his own dynamited head."

    — Entertainment Weekly

    "Reading this is like fishing in some hallucinated lake of the subconscious. No telling what term, idea, or thing you’ll pull up next."

    — Houston Post

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