Incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating (Entertainment Weekly), Dennard Dayles electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics.A New Yorker Best Book of the YearSlyly defiant and blazingly imaginative . . . Dayles a genreshattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain. New York Times bestselling author Paul Beatty Framed as a reference work of humorous entries that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his countrys foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bentabout being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and moreare interspersed with hilarious, oneline definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Abrams; Classification: FA; Weight: 464 g; Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 35

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