| Description |
ix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Bream gives me hiccups: restaurant reviews from a privileged nine-year-old -- Family My little sister texts me with her problems Separation anxiety sleepaway camp My mother explains the ballet to me Email exchange with my first girlfriend, which at a certain point is taken over by my older sister, a college student studying the Bosnian genocide My prescription information pamphlets as written by my father My nephew has some questions -- History Men and dancing Final conversation at Pompeii Alexander Graham Bell's first five phone calls Marxist-Socialist jokes -- My roommate stole my ramen: letters from a frustrated freshman -- Dating Post-gender-normative man tries to pick up a woman at a bar Post-gender-normative woman tries to pick up a man at a bar Guy on acid tries to pick up a woman at a bar Lifelong teatotaler, embarrassed by his own sobriety, tries to pick up a woman at a bar -- Sports Marv Alpert is my therapist Carmelo Anthony and I debrief our friends after a pickup game at the YMCA Marriage counselor tries to heckle at a Knicks game -- Self-help Smiling tricks your brain into thinking it's happy If she ran into me now... Bully does his research -- Language Nick Garrett's review of Rachel Lowenstein's new book, Getting away A short story written with thought-to-text technology If I was fluent in... My spam plays hard to get Manageable tongue twisters -- We only have time for one more We only have time for one more |
| Summary |
"Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation reminds me of a little historical blip called the Karađorđevo agreement); in another, a college freshman forced to live with a roommate is stunned when one of her ramen packets goes missing (she didn't have "one" of my ramens. She had a chicken ramen); in another piece, Alexander Graham Bell has teething problems with his invention (I've been calling Mabel all day, she doesn't pick up! Yes, of course I dialed the right number--2!)" -- |
| Subject |
Humorous stories, American.
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Short stories, American.
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Youth -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| LC no. |
2015298818 |
| ISBN |
0802124046 |
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9780802124043 |
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