Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories

Type

Book

Authors

Eisenberg, Jesse

ISBN 10

0385683588

ISBN 13

9780385683586

Tags

Short Stories, Literary, Youth, Humorous stories, American

Abstract

Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation reminds me of a little historical blip called the Karađorđevo agreement); in another, a college freshman forced to live with a roommate is stunned when one of her ramen packets goes missing (she didn't have "one" of my ramens. She had a chicken ramen); in another piece, Alexander Graham Bell has teething problems with his invention (I've been calling Mabel all day, she doesn't pick up! Yes, of course I dialed the right number--2!).

Biblio Notes

Additional Physical Format: Eisenberg, Jesse, 1983-, author.
Bream gives me hiccups.:
Toronto : Bond Street Books, 2015.
(CaOONL)20159019648
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jesse Eisenberg
ISBN: 9780385683586 0385683588
OCLC Number: 905735397
Notes: "Anchor Canada paperback edition published 2016"--Title page verso.
"Includes three new stories"--Cover.
Description: ix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21cm.
Other Titles: Short stories.
Responsibility: Jesse Eisenberg.

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