Lemon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0970335512 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Armed with a sense of humor that could cut a tomato paper thin after hacking an aluminum can in half." -- Staff Recommendation, University Bookstore, Seattle"Digressions, asides, and interruptions abound, with disquisitions on Handel's Messiah, Cameron's Titanic, and the lemon's history in still life painting." -- Seattle Weekly"His prose is immaculate; his premise, patently ridiculouslike a drawing on a Ping-Pong ball." -- The New York Times Book Review"His terse, economic prose is reminiscent of Samuel Beckett's novels as well as Raymond Carver's short stories." -- Time Out New York, Dec. 14-28, 2000"In the long term, Lemon could appeal (sorry) far beyond the confines of a cult audience." -- mindjack"The perfect marriag
. Krauser has also written the plays Wall Street Made Simple and Horrible Child
Jennifer Amey said the most pretentious thing I've read in a while. What can I say about this odd little tome?It is "the story of one's possession." Wendell is a young gen x-er in love with a lemon. His life as memo writer for the payroll department of an obsessive corporation is transformed when his girlfriend, Marge, leaves him, and in that post-relationship state of angst he begins to carry around a lemon.The conceit works best when his obsession is in the "I just like to carry it around" stage (his embarrassed refusal - his inabilit. A lemon by any other name Lemon is one of the best of the current crop of Nervous Breakdown Novels in its combination of humor, sadness, pathology, and verbal virtuosity. I don't know whether Krauser intended this, since he puts in a claim for a psychological exemption on grounds of Freud allergy, but to me Lemon is a faithful rendering of what can happen to a person who losesa loved one: regression to earlier levels of relatedness, where the object becomes a teddy bear, blanket, or fetish. Krau. Light, charming, funny, J. Bosiljevac What first intrigued me about this book is that the author actually drew by hand all 10,000 first-run covers. Mine has a doodle of a cityscape resting atop a face, with the title and author stamped on it. Then I read the synopsis and had to buy it. This book is about a man, Wendell, who falls in love with a lemon. I thought for a while that there would be deeper meaning-perhaps it's really about the nature of love, or the difficulty of loving in a lonely world. And alth
Krauser has also written the plays Wall Street Made Simple and Horrible Child.. Krauser's inimitable style is at once richly convoluted and light as air. Lemon is the story of the passionate love between a man and a citrus fruit, told with a fluid mixture of prose, drama, and about twenty pages of rhymed couplets