My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel by…

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (original 1990; edition 1990)

by Mark Leyner

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Title:	My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Authors:	Mark Leyner
Info:	Three Rivers Press (1990), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 154 pages
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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel by Mark Leyner (1990)

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Five stars just for the short "I was an infinitely hot and dense dot." One of the craziest, best pieces of American lit anywhere, anytime. (

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peterdarbyshire | Mar 20, 2011 |

James Joyce collaborating with the Marx brothers on a novel about Mark Leyner. Genre-bending stories and poems that all blend into one another. Like being in a great dream where everythign is impossible, but makes sense. (

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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 Brazils'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.

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