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Everything Abridged: Stories

by Everything Abridged: Stories

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"Incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly), Dennard Dayle's electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics.

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

"Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative . . . Dayle's a genre-shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain." --New York Times bestselling author Paul Beatty

Framed as a reference work of humorous "entries" that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged 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.

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.

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.

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  • Apr 11, 2023 Pub Date:
  • 9781419760976 ISBN-13:
  • 1419760971 ISBN-10:
  • English Language