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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
    ISBN
    9781932234053
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Kodansha America, Incorporated
    ISBN-10
    1932234055
    ISBN-13
    9781932234053
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    30246144

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Sayonara, Gangsters
    Number of Pages
    320 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    General, Literary
    Publication Year
    2004
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Fiction
    Author
    Genichiro Takahashi
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.1 in
    Item Weight
    16 Oz
    Item Length
    8.1 in
    Item Width
    5.8 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2005-270670
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Reviews
    "Fabulous...Think of Pynchon with an editor, Donald Barthelme but funnier, or Italo Calvino just as he is." - The Japan Times "Sayonara, Gangsters is a light, poetic, enjoyable read, full of crafted imagery." - The Onion A.V. Club "Sayonara, Gangsters, a thrillingly unhinged perpetual-motion machine full of absurd sex and violence, greased with the awesome confidence of a writer so committed to thumbing his nose at convention that he discovers caverns of wonder deep within said schnozz. (...) The least that can be said is that you never know what's coming next." - Ed Park, The Village Voice, "Fabulous...Think of Pynchon with an editor, Donald Barthelme but funnier, or Italo Calvino just as he is." -The Japan Times "Sayonara, Gangsters is a light, poetic, enjoyable read, full of crafted imagery." -The Onion A.V. Club "Sayonara, Gangsters, a thrillingly unhinged perpetual-motion machine full of absurd sex and violence, greased with the awesome confidence of a writer so committed to thumbing his nose at convention that he discovers caverns of wonder deep within said schnozz. (...) The least that can be said is that you never know what's coming next." -Ed Park, The Village Voice
    Grade From
    Eleventh Grade
    Dewey Decimal
    895.6/35
    Synopsis
    No literal description of Sayonara, Gangsters' plot could ever hope to do it justice. The narrator is a poetry teacher named Sayonara, Gangsters' - he's named after a gang that's been knocking off US Presidents one after another in the novel's facetious near-future. Unfolding in short sketches that often read like poetry or philosophical meditations, Sayonara, Gangsters is a hilarious and inventive postmodernist novel about language, expression, and the creative process from Haruki Murakami's way-more-out-there literary cousin.', Unfolding through short sketches that often read like poetry or philosophical meditations, Sayonara, Gangsters is a hilarious and inventive postmodernist novel about language, expression, and the creative process., If you've ever despaired of expressing yourself, you'll read Sayonara, Gangsters and understand. Set in a facetious near-future that is both mind-bendingly bizarre and achingly familiar. Sayonara, Gangsters is an inventive novel about language, expression and the creative process that unfolds through hilarious sketches. The peaceful if bizarre life of a poetry teacher is forever transformed by a group of terrorists called "the gangsters" in what is, incredibly, a semi-autobiographical novel. On this literary gonzo trip in which a man of letters finds out, too late, that flirting with extremist politics can have unsavory conequences for one's mind, we encounter the likes of Virgil, the refrigerator (a memorable three-dimesional character) and "Henry IV" the feline aficionado of books. Endlessly resourceful, relentlessly erudite, but always accessible, Sayonara, Gangsters is a unique masterpiece of literary postmodernism that aims to entertain rather than to intimidate. From the outrageous beginning, which reads like an oblique reference to the war on terror but is no such thing (it was written more than twenty years ago), to the sobering, devastating end, through the lyrical, poignant middle, Takahashi's legendary first novel is candy for your brain. Sayonara, Gangsters is a must-read for all fans of world literature, available for the first time in English.
    LC Classification Number
    PL862.A4184S3913

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