From the author of the hilarious The Llama Who Had A Hole Through His Head and In Finite Jest comes a third book of stories of humour. Martin Smith and his motley troupe of players return yet again to present The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing, a collection of thirteen startlingly original stories filled with astute satire, wondrous imagination and outrageous black humour.
A waiter awaits a famous last leap. A disgruntled fictional antagonist attends an AA meeting. A young man brings home a ‘special someone’ to meet his parents. A South American beauty aids the POTUS in overcoming his insomnia. An infomercial spruiks the only self-help guide you’ll ever need. And a Greenlander struggles when raising a progressive child in a modern world. Oscillating between farce and tragicomedy, these stories-some darkly funny, some deeply moving, others profoundly wise, but all ridiculously hilarious and hilariously ridiculous-prove that the best medicine to aid one’s health and wellbeing is, and always will be, laughter.
Buy The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing today.
Cos you can’t beat red meat.
Inhoudsopgave
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Floria: An Opera in One Act
AA
Vowels of Abstinence
Goldie
The Gift of the Third Magus
A Skinny Flat White with Two Shots, to Go
Happy Birthday, Mr President! /hfill 108
RNR
The Brief Being of Bea Beeson
The Honourable Egg
The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing
Iggy and His Issue
Goodbye, Farewell, and Thanks for Having Me
Acknowledgements
Over de auteur
Martin Smith is an Australian author-a humorist, of sorts-of short fiction. He lives in a beach house at the tip of the Bellarine Peninsula. When he is not banging away on his keyboard with thumbs and index fingers or reading his scribblings to his beloved Rose, you’ll more likely than not find him walking the beach barefoot at low tide or downing a double scoop of Rocky Road at the local ice-creamery.
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