“The Apocalypse has never been funnier.” - Clive Barker Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon-both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle-are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.Īnd someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Take your pick."- Washington PostĪccording to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
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From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. 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He was a nationally prominent high school basketball star from a small, hoops-crazed town who went on to play big-time college ball and professionally in the National Basketball Association and overseas. Basketball Junkie: A Memoir begins here and details Herren’s double life, one side in the very public realm of athletics and the other outside of the spotlight, behind closed doors. Chris Herren was “dead for thirty seconds,” according to the officer that found him unresponsive behind the wheel of his parked car in Fall River, Massachusetts (p. |