Research Catalog

Title

Laugh track / David Galef.

Author

Galef, David.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

vii, 222 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "Though David Galef is best known for his novels Flesh and Turning Japanese, he has also published over sixty short stories in magazines spanning the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International, and the American Shenandoah.".
• "The fifteen stories selected for Laugh Track are an eclectic mix, from a haunting vignette called "You," about a seminal day in the life of the narrator, to "Triptych," the tale of an elementary school teacher whose men in her life include a precocious third-grader.".
• "In the title story, a failed comedian brings a recorded laugh track to his regular Wednesday psychoanalytic session. During the sometimes tortuous, often hilarious course of treatment, he finally succeeds in displacing his blocked impulses - to the extreme discomfort of his therapist." "In "Metafiction," a frustrated creative writing teacher finds that art begins to imitate life all too closely.".
• "In "All Cretans," a lovelorn tourist in Greece gets ensnared in a set of ancient philosophical paradoxes." "In "The Web of Mobius," what's left of a psychotic's life revolves in a bizarrely twisted circle." "Laugh Track offers fifteen different worlds - from a blocked expatriate author in Mexico, to a drug heist gone wrong in downtown Manhattan, to a love affair pursued at the last leper colony in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Americans > Foreign countries > Fiction
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction

Contents

You -- Triptych -- Portrait of a Portrayal -- Butch -- The Jury -- Laugh Track -- The Web of Mobius -- And Dwelt in a Separate House -- All Cretans -- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- The Inner Child -- Dear, Dirty Paris -- The Art of the Interview -- Metafiction -- The Landlord.

ISBN

1578064228 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001026903

OCLC

• ocm47142239
• SCSB-4261608

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries