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Donald Antrim
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries) |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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192 |
| Date: |
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2001-04-10 |
| ISBN: |
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0375725032 |
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Vintage |
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0.49 pounds |
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0.44 x 5.23 x 8.02 inches |
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Reprint |
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2 Priscilla (USA: GA), Jay (Italy) |
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2 editrix (USA: MA), Keith (USA: OH) |
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Product Description
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.
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