- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: McSweeney's (Aug 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 193241603X
- ISBN-13: 978-1932416039
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #839,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lucy Thomas was one of the McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s most popular contributors. Injuries incurred while installing drywall forced her into semi-retirement. She is now recuperating in Newfoundland, while studying shipbuilding.
This book collects her work from the website, along with many new pieces, and a series of line drawings of an abandoned pier.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Books are neat!,
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This review is from: Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (Paperback)
Of all the asexual midget love stories I have read in the past two weeks this is by far the shortest. This book takes you on an amazing journey of love, betrayal, nacho cheese, and more lovin' all while following the qwirky antics of Chestnut, the falically gifted, yet asexual midget pool shark. It was touching as well as short. So if you want to be inspired but don't have much time, this is the book for you!
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I hasten to differ,
By Richard P. Garni - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (Paperback)
[...] This work, written by Lucy Thomas (if she really exists) is lucid surrealism, delicate and provocative with hidden strength. One could consider it 'boring' and 'pointless' if one also didn't care for Japanese poetry, or the prose poems of James Tate and Ron Padgett-the sorts of artists who maintain the gorgeously skewed vision to consider subjects like, for example, the happiness of the employees at 'my' post office, the small, artificial hand of a boy that was never replaced even when he became a man, why one should never laugh at discounts-points of view that gently jar your world. If you are a writer, and you wish to release the taut bindings that inhibit one's imagination, this might be, to mix the old metaphors, your cup of tea. If you aren't, and still would care for the ultimate grown up stocking stuff, here's a book for you.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspired, surreal, funny, strangely profound,
By ELBSeattle "'The callous sophisticates laughe... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (Paperback)
I found this tiny book in an independent bookstore in Seattle. I read the entire book while standing there. I was immediately and completely enchanted. These stories are impossible to describe, predict, or categorize. They remind me a bit of Brautigan, but without his self-conscious style. I love this little book. Is Lucy Thomas Dave Eggers? I wish she or he would write more.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
aww! super cute!,
By Arienette Cervantes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (Paperback)
This is an intimate collection of (short short)stories by Dave Eggers under the pseudonym Lucy Thomas. The first story "People Should not Laugh at Savings" made me laugh and laugh. It was charming and I was not disappointed with the rest of the book. Because it is not disappointing. It is refreshing. Also, an enlightening way to spend (oh my god) eight dollars.
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