Et Tu, Babe

by Mark Leyner

Overview

In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models — which naturally revolve around him.

Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny — and you'd better hope it's just fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679745068
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/24/1993
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	1st Vintage contemporaries ed
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Mark Leyner is the author of two novels, Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville; two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; and a collection of fiction, plays, and journalism, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, George, and Harper’s.

Editorial Reviews

"Leyner's brilliantly discontinuous humor...begs to be read aloud to friends and strangers alike — if only you could figure out where to stop." — Village Voice

"Leyner is a twisted wizard, a genre-busting virtuoso, working at the outer edge of narrative convention." — Jay McInerney

"Leyner is an original and immensely amusing writer as well as a provocative social critic." — Washington Post Book World

From the Publisher

This uneven but often hilarious satire is based on the premise that the great success of the author's first novel and his irresistible, steroid-enhanced physique have catapulted him to intergalactic stardom. (Sept.) A reissue of Leyner's My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also due in September from Vintage ($10 *-74579-3 ).

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