Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World

"First printing of Antrim's brilliantly, morbidly funny, satiric and dark debut novel . The New Yorker has listed the author as one of the 20 writers for the 21st century. Very fine crisp and clean first printing which appears unread, fresh dust jacket protected in a clear Brodart cover."

From Publisher:

In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange.
In Pete Robinson s seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quartered by an angry mob of townsmen, and Turtle Pond Park is stocked with claymore mines. Pete Robinson, third grade teacher with a 1:32 scale model of an Inquisition dungeon in his basement, wants to open a new school, and in his effort to do so he stumbles upon another idea: he needs to run for mayor. Uniquely hilarious, this novel is a horrifyingly insightful tale of a world not so very different from the one in which we live."

Product Info

ISBN: 0670851396

ISBN-13: 9780670851393

Publisher: Viking Penguin

Year: 1993

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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