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Zusatztext "With read-aloud quality prose and characters we can't look away from! Happy Mutant Baby Pills is a deeply disturbing! deeply funny look at a society desperately in need of assistance." Informationen zum Autor Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and Perv—a Love Story , both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers , Plainclothes Naked , and I, Fatty . He has written extensively for film and television. Klappentext Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"?sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world and exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. "A dope-fueled hellride to the black heart of New Weird America. Stahl turns his satirical scalpel on Big Pharma, environmental contamination, conspiracy theorists, the Occupy movement, CSI, Christian swingles, and adult babies, eviscerating our silly/scary society in search of its soul. Profoundly disturbing, profoundly funny, and profoundly moving."--Richard Lange, author of "Angel Baby" and "Dead Boys" Zusammenfassung Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs! marital aids! and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"—sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit! too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles! an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora! a mysterious and troubled young woman! a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants! who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love! but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance! he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world and exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. ...
