Books by Mark Leyner and Complete Book Reviews
Mark Leyner, Author Vintage Books USA $11.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-679-74506-8
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,...
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Mark Leyner, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-75045-1
Marianne Faithful and Napoleon's sister have cameos in this outlandish first short-story collection from the author of Et Tu, Babe. (Feb.)
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Mark Leyner, Author Three Rivers Press (CA) $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57579-6
These 17 loosely linked short stories are intelligent, funny and incredibly bizarre. Though not all are science fiction, each displays a supercharged cyberpunk writing style jam-packed with elements of tabloid journalism, bits of advertising slogans,
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Mark Leyner, Author Harmony $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-517-70101-0
Once again the superhero of his own Rabelaisian Chants of Maldoror, jaw-slackeningly inventive Esquire columnist Leyner (My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Et Tu Babe)--here a bare-chested 13-year-old in Versace leather jeans--has just won a $250,000-
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Mark Leyner, Author Harmony $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58335-7
Leyner follows up the critical success of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist with an extravagant, kaleidoscopic satire based on the premise that his first novel's great success and his irresistible, steroid-enhanced physique have catapulted him to...
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Mark Leyner, Author Harmony $19 (216p) ISBN 978-0-517-59384-4
This hodgepodge of short stories, comic sketches, and one play is in the same fantastic, satirical vein as Leyner's (Et Tu, Babe) earlier fiction, with its disjointed, slapstick style, its surrealist tricks and its lusty appetite for mass culture,...
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Mark Leyner. Little, Brown, $24.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-316-60845-9
Sporting an even more eye-catching title than his previous books My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and the #1 New York Times bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples? Leyner’s latest is, insomuch as it is about anything, a tale of the gods. Gods like Mogul
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Mark Leyner. Little, Brown, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-32325-3
Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack) applies his trademark brand of absurd, postmodern metafiction to this interesting autobiographical novel. The fictional Mark Leyner in this book is giving a reading of his new autobiography in the food court of a...
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Mark Leyner, Author, William Goldberg, Author, Billy Goldberg, Author Three Rivers Press $14 (217p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8231-5
Urban legends and perennial wonders get a witty treatment in this lighthearted guide to largely inconsequential yet intriguing aspects of the human body. Leyner, a novelist whose writing appears regularly in the New Yorker and GQ, and New York...
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Mark Leyner, Author, Billy Goldberg, Author Three Rivers $13.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-307-34597-4
The sequel to 2005's surprise bestseller Why Do Mean Have Nipples?, the latest from writer-physician duo Leyner and Goldberg is immensely readable and educational, but it's also crude and predictable. Like the first volume, this book is set up in a...
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Mark Leyner, Author, Billy Goldberg, Author, Mark Leyner, Read by HarperAudio $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-117343-1
Just about anyone needing a good laugh along with some information will certainly appreciate this second foray (following Why Do Men Have Nipples?) into this clever and crafty duo's wacky world. Leyner (My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist) once again...
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Mark Leyner. Little, Brown, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-56050-4
In Leyner’s exhilarating and grotesque fever dream (after Gone with the Mind), an anthropologist’s account of a night spent in the field with his filmmaker daughter is read by an optometrist’s patient on an eye exam chart while a series of lenses...
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