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I dream of microwaves : stories / Imad Rahman.
- Title
- I dream of microwaves : stories / Imad Rahman.
- Author
- Rahman, Imad, 1970-
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3618.A38 I15 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 244 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "When B-movie-grade actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar opens the mail one day, he finds a one-way bus ticket to Cleveland and a note from his ex-girlfriend Eileen that reads, "Good news. I am through with big dicks and henceforth thinking constantly of you." So begin the linked misadventures of one of the most endearing ne'er-do-wells to grace recent American fiction." "Kareem drops his job portraying "ethnic" criminals on America's Most Wanted and makes his way to Ohio, where he puts his dramatic skills to the test by impersonating a Bosnian refugee in an attempt to help Eileen cash in on her grandmother's philanthropy. Such virtuosity can't last, however, and Kareem moves on, looking for a way to be himself when the camera isn't rolling. In one story, he pushes drinks as the Zima Zorro at the Ancient Mariner Sports Bar and Grill, in another, he roughs up Unrepentant Videotape Privilege Abuse Perpetrators as a rental-video repossessor. He returns to the theater, first as stage manager to an incestuous Shakespearean troupe adrift in Pakistan, then as a Kilgore hell-bent on getting bumped up to Kurtz in a musical dinner-theater production of Apocalypse Now."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0374174016 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003017791
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries