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In this universe, every joke ever told is solid, real and occasionally dangerous - and all happening, one after another, to the same small group of people. In this story, a bland young boy is doomed to record - in an incongruously serious, autobiographical mode - all the ridiculous incidents befalling his household. With their lives dictated by set-ups and punchlines, the boy's family quickly becomes luridly dysfunctional, and he realises the only way to escape his tragicomic fate is to take control of the joke-telling himself.
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Known primarily for his avant-garde music, Momus (aka Nick Currie) proves that he is no slouch as fiction writer either, easily translating his iconoclastic vision to prose. The novel is a phantasmagorical ride through dirty jokes that, in Momus s twisted alternate reality, dictate the lives of a very unfortunate family. The humor is dark and absurd and genuinely funny (though not for everyone), and the style is reminiscent of Naked Lunch, with puns and coarse jokes instead of caterpillars and otherworldly creatures. This strong and short novel, despite its uncompromising structure and style, is delightfully crude and never ever dull.
Momus' book is funny sometimes laugh-out loud, sometimes wincingly and the humor is delivered in Joycean puns, dry British parody and spoof...
The book is gleefully postmodern, and only a novel in the most technical sense: it's meta-jest, a long joke about jokes, and it is, by turns, funny and horrifying. --Michael Schaub
Momus' book is funny sometimes laugh-out loud, sometimes wincingly and the humor is delivered in Joycean puns, dry British parody and spoof...
The book is gleefully postmodern, and only a novel in the most technical sense: it's meta-jest, a long joke about jokes, and it is, by turns, funny and horrifying. --Michael Schaub
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- PublisherDALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1564785610
- ISBN 13 9781564785619
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The uproarious first novel from cult songwriter Momus, hailed by Mojo as the most underrated man in pop! Imagine a universe where every joke you've ever heard is solid, real, and occasionally dangerous and all happening, one after the other, to the same small group of people. Detailing a series of filthy and ludicrous episodes in the life of a single family, saddled with a super-eccentric, sexually rapacious father, The Book of Jokes tells the story of the youth and education of a bland young boy doomed to record in an incongruously serious, autobiographical mode all the ridiculous incidents befalling his household. With their lives dictated by set ups and punchlines, the boy's family quickly becomes luridly dysfunctional, and he realizes that the only way to escape his tragicomic fate is by trying to take control of the joke-telling himself. Channeling the spirits of Chaucer, Rabelais, Flann O'Brien, and Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, the Vatican secretary who compiled the first known book of jokes in 1451, The Book of Jokes is a happy raspberry in the face of life as we know and tell it. The uproarious first novel from cult songwriter Momus, hailed by Mojo as the most underrated man in pop! Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781564785619
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