| Title | : | Violent Solutions to Popular Problems |
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| ISBN | : | 1952386535 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781952386534 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 |
| Publication | : | Published August 1, 2023 |
Extracted from the maw of a resting shrew, these ten cankers reek of huff and qualm. A librarian teams up with a weeping bus-dweller to suppress a talentless writer. A man attempts a perfect equilibrium of pain and pleasure to forge a life of matchless keel. A triumvirate of Dans spiral into oblivion with operatic panache. Two sub-people struggle for ascension to the normal realm in a heckish caste system. Various narked sods explain the violent solutions to their popular problems in a tale that Butch Vig might call "titular". Someone explains the complex sociological web of mayhem that is the modern coffeehouse. Postmodernism makes a shocking return in a classic postmodern tale about postmodernism shaking its postmodern bahookie. In future Texas, women attempting abortions are held captive and forced to whelp at gunpoint. And in a finale one Dutch arborist has called "a botched stew", the world's unwritten characters mingle in a bardo where their untold stories flex and throb in painful collocation. For the first time in his life, the unacclaimed novelist M.J. Nicholls has written a collection of prose fit for hexagonal man.
Violent Solutions to Popular Problems Reviews
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Ten stories, squeezed from the nastiest nooks of my ailing noggin, spread awkwardly across 148 pages, next month.
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The inimitable MJ, now available in short form. Come for the phrases, stay for the phrases, leave bedazzled by phraseology -- it's not a phase he’s going through, he’s fully committed to the bit, but where does it leave us? Amused, befuddled, fulfilled.
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Above all else, I like the sardonic exuberance of the wordage.
