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Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Cornbelt
Grove Press
March 2000
On Sale: March 13, 2000
432 pages
ISBN: 0802136729
EAN: 9780802136725
Paperback
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Fiction | Humor
A literary sensation published to outstanding accolades in
America and around the world, Lord of the Barnyard was one
of the most auspicious fiction debuts of recent years. Now
available in paperback, Tristan Egolf's manic, inventive,
and painfully funny debut novel is the story of a town's
dirty laundry -- and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all
hang out. Lord of the Barnyard begins with the death of a
woolly mammoth in the last Ice Age and concludes with a
greased-pig chase at a funeral in the modern-day Midwest.
In the interim there are two hydroelectric dam disasters,
fourteen tavern brawls, one shoot-out in the hills, three
cases of probable arson, a riot in the town hall, and a
lone tornado, as well as appearances by a coven of
Methodist crones, an encampment of Appalachian crop
thieves, six renegade coal-truck operators, an outraged mob
of factory rats, a dysfunctional poultry plant, and one
autodidact goat-roping farm boy by the name of John
Kaltenbrunner. Lord of the Barnyard is a brilliantly comic
tapestry of a Middle America still populated by river rats
and assembly-line poultry killers, measuring into shot
glasses the fruits of years of quiet desperation on the
factory floor. Unforgettable and linguistically dizzying,
it goes much farther than postal.
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