Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel
Donald Antrim
ISBN: | 9780670851393 |
Publisher: | Viking Adult |
Published: | 1 September, 1993 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel
Donald Antrim
In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World , Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange. In Pete Robinson s seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quartered by an angry mob of townsmen, and Turtle Pond Park is stocked with claymore mines. Pete Robinson, third grade teacher with a 1:32 scale model of an Inquisition dungeon in his basement, wants to open a new school, and in his effort to do so he stumbles upon another idea: he needs to run for mayor. Uniquely hilarious, this novel is a horrifyingly insightful tale of a world not so very different from the one in which we live.
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