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Carl versus the Men from Mars
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| Published by Writer's Club Press |
| December 2001 |
| ISBN: 0595212336 |
| In ten comic stories that fluctuate between chaos and poignancy, Chicago writer
Sheppard delivers a perception of America that is not only dark and peculiar- it is also
horribly funny. In the adult Carl stories, the grill cook's travels lead to run-ins with drunks,
a just-released convict, the burly daughter of a diner owner, a literate runaway, a brain-
damaged veteran and men's encounter group thugs. His childhood stories present a
vision of eccentric family life that is both irreverent and surprisingly moving. Other stories
feature soldiers coming to grips with the tedium of their mission in West Germany near
the end of the Cold War; a baker whose decision to leave his high-paying job as an
engineer drives his wife into the arms of a student dentist; and an unemployed
mathematician who finds himself caught between his stern nurse-mother and his
itinerant father at the beginning of a new Great Depression. |
| Experimental
, Humor
, Literary
, Short Story
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