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I Smell Esther Williams (Vintage Contemporaries) by Leyner, Mark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites. Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.

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Author

Leyner, Mark

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679745068

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.8 / 5 (1,453 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14