The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend's novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are laid bare, often literally. In these twelve stories, Almond refuses to let his characters off the hook, or to abandon them, until we have seen the full measure of ourselves within their struggle.

Author: Steve Almond
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 04/28/2006
Pages: 233
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.08h x 4.98w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781565125292
ISBN10: 1565125290
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author
Steve Almond has published over one hundred stories and poems-in publications ranging from Playboy to Tin House to Zoetrope--and a two previous collections of stories, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. He is the author of the bestselling novel Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.