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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel Paperback – May 10, 1993

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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 Brazil’s most notoriously nihilistic samba band.
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    May 10, 1993
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    5.19 x 0.4 x 8 inches
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    0679745793
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"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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This book 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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; First Edition Thus (May 10, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679745793
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679745792
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 0.4 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Mark Leyner (born 1956) is an American postmodernist author.

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mothy
5.0 out of 5 stars Mark. He’s so darned funny.
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One of the authors most thrilling rides. Schizophrenics, take note!
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Mark Stivers
4.0 out of 5 stars Tarentino of prose
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2012
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Like Tarentino, Leyner pushes the acceptable limits of good taste. He also finds endless new combinations of cultural and stylistic tropes to dazzle the ear. And he's addictively entertaining. And at the end, you may wonder if it adds up to anything.
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Mark Leyner he’s one of my favorite authors and in my opinion is a national treasure. He’s right up there with Jack Douglass and his stream of consciousness weird brain. But you will not forget him if you read any of his works. He’s like Hunter S Thompson without the creepy drama. 🤣
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very Strange Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2014
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This is a very, very strange book. It's not exactly an easy read, but it's worth it if you just go with it. Note: this is experimental fiction, so you will have an immediate reaction and be tempted to put it aside. Decide on your tolerance for that before you buy.
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Max Levin
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend for those seeking absurdist post-modern prose
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One of the most outrageous and hilarious books I've ever read, ideas and images from "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist" stays with me months after I read it. Highly recommend for those seeking absurdist post-modern prose.
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Love this author and am very pleased with this transaction!!!!!! Terrific seller of quality goods!!!!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Heady travel fare...
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2000
Picked up a copy in a gift shop at Chicago O'Hare airport. Laffed my way Albany, via Pittsburgh. Throughly enjoyed the ridiculous and oft times "confusticating" cyber-punk. At first it struck me as the private musings of a terminally bored and out of work english major but indeed impressed me for what it was in the end. A cynical, silly, ridiculous and at times much more serious than you might think collection of short stories. The 4th star was for the cover art. Huzzah.
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