{"product_id":"everything-abridged-stories-9781419760976","title":"Everything Abridged: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Dennard Dayle's electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative . . . Dayle's a genre-shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Paul Beatty\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Framed as a reference work of humorous \"entries\" that offer trenchant social commentary, \u003ci\u003eEverything Abridged\u003c\/i\u003e presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country's foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bent--about being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and more--are interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14877057\"\u003eDennard Dayle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.51w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419760976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1419760971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC052000\"\u003eSatire\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC049000\"\u003eAfrican American \u0026amp; Black | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennard Dayle\u003c\/b\u003e is a Jamaican-American writer from New York City. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA from Columbia University. His short fiction has been published by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClarkesworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatchbook\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Hard Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Internet Tendency\u003c\/i\u003e, and his satirical performance art has been covered by NBC, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Dayle is based in Brooklyn. \u003ci\u003eEverything Abridged \u003c\/i\u003eis his debut collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harry N. 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