| The Wrestler's Cruel Study Contributor(s): Dobyns, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393312127 ISBN-13: 9780393312126 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1995 Annotation: 'This is a very dark and very funny novel, which is, at once, a mystery, a defense of western civilization, a cartoon strip, an examination of how to live, a thriller, an attack on western civilization, a farce, and a study on the nature of evil. Imagine an urban Twin Peaks but with an intellectual center. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Absurdist |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.45" W x 8.27" (0.91 lbs) 430 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fun and puns mingle with daring make-believe. Larger-than-life characters play out the crucial human questions: How do we live? How do we handle our demons? |
Contributor Bio(s): Dobyns, Stephen: - Stephen Dobyns is a poet and a novelist. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at various academic institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and Boston University. He currently resides in Rhode Island. |