I Smell Esther Williams: And Other Stories

By Mark Leyner

Book Overview

A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679750452
• ISBN13: 9780679750451
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A level of genius so high as to be unrecognizable as such

If you couldn't get through ten pages of William S. Burroughs the one time you tried, if you stared at Andy Kaufmann and wondered why anybody would think what he was doing was comedy, if The Residents produced what is, to you, an offensively pointless mish-mash of sound, then you will certainly not be able to finish this brilliant book. Move on to Leyner's equally excellent easier stuff.

Yes, but...

It's true, he's a hilarious writer. But could we please look up the word "penultimate" in the dictionary before using it again? Thanks Virginia!

Leyner is GOD

It hurts. It stings. It's just that good, baby. Leyner is the penultimate puppetmaster to the big literary kahuna in der sky. What else can I possibly say except "Buy this Damn Book," and, "Thanks, Mr. Leyner." Just one more reason not to eat glock tomorrow morning. God Bless America. And God bless Mark Leyner.