Daniel Evan Weiss
Autore di The Roaches Have No King
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Opere di Daniel Evan Weiss
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1953-10-11
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Overdue Podcast (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 399
- Popolarità
- #60,805
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 21
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1
Through the eyes of Numbers, just one member of a whole colony of Blattella germanica inhabiting a New York apartment, we see the grim aftermath of a disaster: one human has moved out and another moved in; the Gypsy, Ira's former girlfriend, was sloppy and tempestuous, spilling (occasionally throwing) food; Ruth, Ira's current girlfriend, is tidy and clean, particularly in the kitchen. Result: no more pools of soup or globs of goulash lying around—and for the roaches that means famine. The story follows Numbers as he schemes to save the colony by, somehow, getting rid of Ruth and manoeuvring the hapless Ira into the arms of a neighbour's wife. It's not an easy road, either for him or us, and readers likely to suffer an attack of the vapours or start fluttering their fans at any of the following, should think twice before tackling it: there's indiscriminate mass-slaughter, insecticide sprays, boric acid, cannibalism, lavatories (seen from inside the bowl), excrement itself, cockroaches and even (ugh!) humans.
It's yukky, yes, funny and some of the writing brilliant. Recommended for: anyone who always suspected that our own species are no better (or worse) than cockroaches, but thought no one else had noticed.… (altro)