{"product_id":"9781465321879","title":"Moe Howard Died For Our Sins: made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cb\u003eREAD THE BOOK. SHARE THE FAITH. PASS THE SELTZER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the 2005 James Thurber Prize for American Humor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...Dale Andrew White is a natural born storyteller with an especial flair for blending fantasy, whimsy, satire, and a fevered imagination into original stories that are replete with ribald humor and reader-engaging novelty. Subtitled ´made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted,´ this collection of short stories showcase a genuine and offbeat talent... Highly recommended reading!\" \u003ci\u003e- Midwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Dale Andrew White is a devious writer and his new collection, \u003ci\u003eMoe Howard Died For Our Sins\u003c\/i\u003e, provides incriminating evidence of this. On the one hand, the flavor his tales faintly evokes the decayed ante-bellum style of Southern literature that is both lyrically humorous and self-deprecating: the sort of thing we get in Faulkner´s \u003ci\u003eSartoris\u003c\/i\u003e or Mark Twain´s \u003ci\u003e Huckleberry Finn.\u003c\/i\u003e ... On the other hand, this is not the satire of Ambrose Bierce or H.L. Mencken. It is more like the kind of in-your-face semantic slapstick that you might expect of a George Carlin or Lenny Bruce... To open this collection is to invite trouble - and probably enjoy it. ... Excellent!\". \u003ci\u003e- Rod Clark, editor of Rosebud Magazine, on BookReview.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith humor as twisted as its stories’ plots, \u003cb\u003eMoe Howard Died For Our Sins\u003c\/b\u003e takes readers on a rollicking, hilarious ride. Go to Hell - and see it as a tourist. Get lured into a pie-throwing cult. Peek backstage at the Second Coming. Encounter talking pigs, a tongue-twisting poet, levitating patients, militant tots and a song-and-dance act that’s its own show-stopper. The misadventures just keep coming. Part fantasy, part satire, this collection of short fiction is totally bent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories include: \"The Dirtiest Words in the World,\" \"The South´s Greatest Writer,\" \"Lunacy Grounded,\" \"Life of the Party,\" \"Feed the Lawyers,\" \"Mrs. Reinsman Rides Again,\" \"Moe Howard Died For Our Sins\" and 12 more \"made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted\" -- all snatched from the pages of \u003cb\u003eModern Short Stories, Comic Relief, Beyond Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy, Nuthouse\u003c\/b\u003e and other magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129757679856,"sku":"9781465321879","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781465321879_p0.jpg?v=1763683277","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781465321879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}