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Grove Press
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
256 pages
ISBN: 0802124046
EAN: 9780802124043
Kindle: B00XAQ1MVM
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Humor
Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the
whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor
Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also
for his regular pieces in the New Yorker and his two
critically acclaimed plays, Eisenberg is an emerging
literary voice. Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the
book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary
L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient
Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social
misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous
overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between
a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister,
who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation
reminds me of a little historical blip called the
Karadordevo agreement); in another, a college freshman
forced to live with a roommate is stunned when one of her
ramen packets goes missing (she didn’t have “one” of my
ramens. She had a chicken ramen); in another piece,
Alexander Graham Bell has teething problems with his
invention (I’ve been calling Mabel all day, she doesn’t
pick up! Yes, of course I dialed the right number – 2!). United by Eisenberg’s gift for humor and character, and
grouped into chapters that open with illustrations by
award-winning cartoonist Jean Jullien, the witty pieces
collected in Bream Gives Me Hiccups explore the
various insanities of the modern world, and mark the arrival
of a fantastically funny, self-ironic, and original voice.
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