Después de varios siglos de leer relatos, inconscientemente transmitidos de una generación machista a la siguiente, este autor ha rescatado e iluminado aquellas narraciones clásicas contándolas de nuevo de un modo mucho más acorde con la sociedad actual.
In the follow-up to the award-winning Honk Honk, My Darling, NYT best-selling author James Finn Garner (Politically Correct Bedtime Stories) returns to the restless streets of Top Town, a ghetto full of circus has-beens and never-wases, and the stomping grounds of that Sam Spade in Whiteface, Rex Koko.In this thrilling clown noir caper, Rex Koko is asked to bring in a rogue lion and has his expensive shoes chewed up in the process. While trying to be repaid for them, Rex runs afoul of drug-pushing quacks, alligator hypnotists, Amazonian witch doctors, infantile mobsters and blue-nosed moral crusaders. Before the second act, menace fills the Top Town air like the smells of popcorn, whiskey and fear. The South American jungle was never so dangerous as the tawdry streets of Top Town, "the next best thing to a good time."Its three rings of danger, suspense and more danger. As e.e. cummings said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"
A NYTimes best seller in 1995, this book contains such stories as Twas the Night Before Solstice, Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer, and A Christmas Carol. It will help you celebrate holidays in an inclusive, culturally sensitive way that is much more enjoyable than a grade school pageant. Plus, the new story "Santas Ashes" and Chapter 3 of "Rex Koko. Private Clown".
From the author of the #1 best-seller "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", comes a hilarious thriller that establishes a new genre: Clown Noir.2011 Book of the Year (Nontraditional Fiction) by the Chicago Writers Association!In Top Town, a ghetto full of washed-up circus lifers in the shadow of a big city, Rex Koko is a pariah. Yet this clowns brand of chaos helps him solve the most heinous crimes, as he tries to earn personal redemption. In "Honk Honk, My Darling", Rex is hired by a haughty trapeze star to bring back his wayward wife. Every time Rex comes close to finding her, however, other aerialists come to gruesome and spectacular ends. Is Addie Carlozo a "black widow"? Is Rex really cursed with bad luck? Why is he being followed by those red-headed roustabout bastards, the Redd Brothers? And will "circus justice" intervene before the police do? Revenge, corruption and murder headline the bill in Top Town, where life comes 3 balls for a nickel. Babes, bullets, banana peels! As the poet said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"
Following the international best-seller "PC Bedtime Stories" come these nurturing tales for pre-adults. These stories purge the cultural biases, sexism, speciesism, and other -isms from the "classics" that have been handed down from one social power structure to another. Plus new material: a chapter of "Rex Koko, Private Clown," from the award-winning mystery, Honk Honk, My Darling.
From the international best-selling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories comes a new mystery genre: Clown noir!2015 Book of the Year, Chicago Writers Association!In Top Town, a ghetto full of washed-up circus lifers in the shadow of a big city, audiences come every night for cheap thrills, both wholesome and not. Fire eaters perform for gin money. Gypsies reveal the future (and for 20 bucks can make it happen). Daredevils cheat Death time after time, but once. And witness to it all is one of the most loved and notorious figures in Top Town, a tough joey with a deadly past and a nose for picking all the wrong fights: Rex Koko, private clown.The Wet Nose of Danger yanks our hero out of his element when he is hired by a high society dame to get to the bottom of a dognapping epidemic among the show dogs at the kennel club. At the same time, he is asked to hunt down two missing sideshow freaks. Where do his loyalties lie -- with the blue-bloods who will never accept him, or with the kinkers who will never forgive him for a past tragedy?Add to the mix transvestite mobsters, rogue elephant seals, midget policemen, randy joey-jumpers, fugitive Nazis, and a silent trafficker in human misery,and you have a gripping, hilarious thriller that wont stop humping your leg.Pistols! Palookas! Pampered pooches! As e.e. cummings said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"
Vet aquí una vegada, al Pol Nord, un caduc patriarca rialler que, per satisfer l’afany consumista dels preadults i les preadultes d’arreu del món, subjugava els animals no humans i altres criatures m
Vet aquí una vegada, al Pol Nord, un caduc patriarca rialler que, per satisfer lafany consumista dels preadults i les preadultes darreu del món, subjugava els animals no humans i les criatures màgiq
Fa molt de temps, en una epoca llunyana, els homes (perdó: les persones masculines) de mitjana edat es reunien en els seus clubs elitistes, fumant sense parar puros pudents, i s'explicaven, els uns als altres, les aventures de la nit abans, exagerant-les una mica, si calia. Algunes d'aquestes aventures s'han perpetuat al llarg dels segles en forma de contes infantils, amb personatges tan famosos com la Caputxeta Vermella, la Ventafocs, els tres porquets, la Blancaneu, Joan i la mongetera... El problema es que aquelles aventures (i per tant aquests contes infantils) eren (i son) sexistes i racistes discriminatoris en qualsevol cas, i mostren un menyspreu constant pels valors culturals que, com a persones, mereixen les bruixes, les fades, els animals, els gnoms, l'ecologia en general i, en particular, el reciclatge i els drets dels no fumadors. Finalment, pero, despres de segles d'obscurantisme, James Finn Garner ha tingut el coratge de reescriure aquests contes infantils d'acord amb els temps politicamenr correctes a que afortunadamenr ens acostem. El company Garner es escriptor i actor, i viu a Xicago. Publica al Chicago Herald Tribune i actua a la Chicago Public Radio.
Tras el éxito de "Cuentos infantiles políticamente correctos", el autor prosigue en liberar el cuento de hadas "clásico" de sus arcaicos conceptos sexista, clasista o costumbrista.
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