Happy Mutant Baby Pills

Author: Jerry Stahl

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  • : $17.99 AUD
  • : 9780061990502
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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  • : October 2013
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  • : United States
  • : 17.99
  • : November 2013
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Barcode 9780061990502
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Description

Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects, and his job is to recite and minimize-sometimes by just saying them really fast-other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world, to exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. Stahl's gleefully twisted, maniacally brilliant prose, will delight, appall, and prove, once again, that Stahl is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso (New Yorker).

Reviews

"Jerry Stahl is one of our last defenders against the darkness and "Happy Mutant Baby Pills" is a deeply funny and devastating warning label for the world we live in, a world that is ultimately, as Stahl brilliantly demonstrates, one giant side effect."--Sam Lipsyte, author of "The Ask"

Author description

Jerry Stahl is author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight (which was made into a movie starring Ben Stiller) and Perv-A Love Story, both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television, most recently Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman. His much-anthologized fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, Details, Playboy, Black Book, LA Weekly, and Tin House. He lives in Los Angeles.