McSweeney's Issue 20

by Eggers, Dave

• ISBN13: 9781932416527
• ISBN10: 1932416528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-27
• Publisher: McSweeney's

Summary

Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist.  The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto — that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, there¹s a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrian¹s The Children¹s Hospital..

This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.

Table of Contents

To Sit, Unmoving	p. 5
Statement of Purpose	p. 33
City Water	p. 51
The Man Who Married a Tree	p. 63
Terminal	p. 83
God and the Coconuts	p. 87
The Big Dud	p. 91
Loess	p. 119
Houses for Fishes	p. 133
Elsewhere	p. 135
Mate	p. 155
The King's Book	p. 173
Celebrants	p. 181
Art index and credits	p. 202
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