The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

Steve Almond

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Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend's novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are laid bare, often literally. In these twelve stories, Almond refuses to let his characters off the hook, or to abandon them, until we have seen the full measure of ourselves within their struggle.

Book Details

Publisher: Algonquin Books
Publish Date: Apr 28th, 2006
Pages: 248
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.08in - 4.98in - 0.69in - 0.54lb
EAN: 9781565125292
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

Almond, Steve: - Steve Almond has published over one hundred stories and poems--in publications ranging from Playboy to Tin House to Zoetrope--and a two previous collections of stories, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. He is the author of the bestselling novel Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.

Praise for this book

"Always enjoyable, often hysterical."
--New York Times Book Review