My Fake War
The absurd tale of an unlikely soldier forced to fight a war that, quite possibly, does not exist. Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of this changes when a soldier in a camouflage sweat...
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The absurd tale of an unlikely soldier forced to fight a war that, quite possibly, does not exist. Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of this changes when a soldier in a camouflage sweat suit shows up to draft him into the army of the United States of Everything. His mission is simple: go to a foreign country no one has ever heard of and incite the opposition to strike first. All alone in the middle of a desert with no enemy in sight, Saul must come to terms with the absurdity of his situation. Thus begins a surreal journey into the politics of war, consumerism, and giant robots. It's Rambo meets Waiting for Godot in this subversive satire of American values and the scope of the human imagination.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933929996 (1933929995)
Publish date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
One of the things I like about the writings of Andersen Prunty is that each book is different. Some are bizarro fantasy, some border on horror and My Fake War is political satire. This novel is satire in the most absurd sense. Hints of Beckett and Vonnegut abound and if Prunty doesn't quite reach th...