Your Body is Changing
- ISBN-10
- 0385673108
- ISBN-13
- 9780385673105
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-27
- Publisher
- Anchor Canada
- Author
- Jack Pendarvis
Description
A new collection of stories from the Pushcart Prize-winning author of The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. Glittering with mischief and perversity, Jack Pendarvis’s latest collection of short fiction introduces readers to a world of losers poised on the brink of all sorts of disaster – a world only a wink and a nod away from our own. In the title novella a fundamentalist teenager must single-handedly confront the horrors of a spiritual quest filled with secular humanists, an apocalyptic folk artist, and a couple of movie stars. The other stories deal poignantly with – among other things – a young millionaire pretending to be a detective, Alabamians getting violent in a New York bar, the good folks who invented diarrhea-inducing chewing gum, a man who becomes an impromptu drug mule, magnetic healers, and a candidate making a sad speech for office. Underlying each comedic gem and neurotic twist is an intelligence and empathy rarely found in modern satire. Like the best guidebooks, Your Body is Changing will invite you in with its zany humor and indict you with its moving truths.
Get the book
Similar books
-
My Changing Body: Boys
By Linda PiconeDiscusses the physical and emotional changes that occur as a boy goes through puberty, covering such topics as body image, hygiene, eating habits, voice changes, dating, the reproductive system, sex, birth control, and pregnancy.
-
My Body's Changing for Boys
By Anita Ganeri, Franklin WattsYou might have noticed some of these changes already, or they might not have started happening to you yet. This book explains what happens during puberty, and provides some friendly reassurance and advice.
-
I'm a Boy: My Changing Body
By Shelley Metten"The storyline in this book is a continuation from the first book in the series, I'm a Boy, Special Me. Now the three boys are a little older and Dr. M uses colorful and accurate illustrations to teach them about the physical changes they ...
-
Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls
By Sonya Renee TaylorThis inclusive option in puberty books for girls is the ultimate guide to facing puberty with confidence.
-
Movie Stars
By Jack PendarvisThese stories are linked by humor, setting, themes and recurring characters -- cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts and fools -- but mostly by the movie stars, gods and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of ...
-
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
By Daniel G. Amen, M.D.Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two decades of clinical practice at the renowned Amen Clinics, where Dr. Amen and his associates pioneered the use of the most advanced brain imaging technology, Change ...
-
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: Revised Edition
By Lynda Madaras, Area Madaras, Simon SullivanEverything preteen and teen girls need to know about their changing bodies and feelings Written by an experienced educator and her daughter in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, The "What's Happening to My Body?
-
Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls
By Sonya Renee TaylorThis book will guide them as they learn about (and celebrate) their amazing, changing, one-of-a-kind bodies--during puberty and beyond Among puberty books for girls, Celebrate Your Body offers encouraging support while answering real ...
-
Change Your Mind. Change Your Body. Change Your Life.
By Bobbi ZemoThis book makes it easy for you to workout whether you are a beginner or advanced. This book has a beginners workout and a complete intermediate mat pilates workout routine.
-
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
By Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard HarrisBarker, D. 1992.Fetal Origins of Adult Disease. London: British Medical Journal. 1995. Fetal origins of coronary heart disease. British Medical Journal 311: 171–174. 1998. Mothers, Babies, and Health in Later Life.