{"product_id":"2940011434419","title":"Side Effects","description":"\u003cp\u003eVonnegut meets Catch-22!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last hours of his hectic life, Simon Apple faces up to the hard truth that his very survival represents a prescription for disaster, not only for the pharmaceutical industry but for the nation itself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Simon is transformed from an innocent, loving child in a small midwestern city into Public Enemy Number One by a series of dizzying Side Effects makes for an unforgettable medical misadventure in an age when a new miracle drug, promising paradise, comes along every day — just in time for the Evening News. Side Effects is a rollicking read, the story of a hapless hero caught in an existential whirl where there's a pill for every problem, give or take some unexpected consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a cover by Gahan Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout Harvey Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarvey Jacobs is the award-winning author of \"American Goliath\" (\"An inspired novel\"—TIME Magazine). His short fiction has appeared in a wide spectrum of magazines in the USA and abroad including Esquire, The Paris Review, Playboy, Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction, New Worlds, and many anthologies. In addition to the novels and short stories, he has written widely for television, the Earplay Project for radio drama, and helped create and name the Obie Awards for the Village Voice. He was publisher of the counterculture newspaper, East. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a New York Arts Council CAPS award for drama, a Playboy Fiction Award, and a Writers Guild of America script award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR SIDE EFFECTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The culture of pharmaceutical overkill is the subject--and target--of this high-energy fifth novel from the little-known comic surrealist whose best books (American Goliath, 1998, etc.) rival the late 20th-century antic fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Stanley Elkin. ... A great comic novel and a huge leap forward for one of America's most underrated and accomplished writers.\u003cbr\u003e— Kirkus Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEWS OF THE AUTHOR'S PREVIOUS BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cheerful celebration of a big American myth... An inspired novel.\u003cbr\u003eTIME Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBells clanging, lights aflash, the plot's ball bangs and rebounds. . . . A wonderful and wonderfully funny book.\u003cbr\u003e—James Sallis\u003cbr\u003eLA Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis characters are haunting. . . . I have rarely enjoyed finding a writer as much as I have enjoyed my own discovery of Jacobs.\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Cromie\u003cbr\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe manages to satirize our all-too-human foibles and failures without becoming too blackly unforgiving.\u003cbr\u003e—Thomas M. Disch\u003cbr\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuietly amused, wry approach that gives distinction to Mr. Jacobs' work . . . his dry humor would be hard to improve on.\u003cbr\u003e—Elizabeth Easton\u003cbr\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wonderfully engrossing read. . . . I recommend it to everyone who has given up of ever again being entertained at such a high level of aspiration.\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Moorcock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bawdy, joyous romp . . . it's a wonderful book.\u003cbr\u003e—Jack Dann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook upon the amazing world of Harvey Jacobs! Come one, come all, for an experience never to be forgotten!\u003cbr\u003e—Fred Chappell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Doctorow's Ragtime and George R. R. Martin's Fevre Dream, it's totally realized.\u003cbr\u003e—Howard Waldrop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA great book should aspire (and succeed) in making you laugh, making you cry and just maybe, making you think. . . . Harvey's novels will do all that.\u003cbr\u003e—John Pelan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ReAnimus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180367495408,"sku":"2940011434419","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011434419_p0.jpg?v=1763549216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011434419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}