Whether they're sitting at home getting stoned or getting cloned and sent to the other side of the galaxy, Jeremy Sheldon's characters are ultimately preoccupied with the important things in life: sex and food, love and football, masturbation and computer games. Sheldon creates a world where these regular recreational activities are pushed to extremes: a gang of bored friends compete to eat as much as they can in a supermarket sweep with a difference...the World Tekken Champion falls in love with the only woman who can beat his Jin Kazama with her Ling Xiaoyu...a bitter divorcee finds himself obsessed with the state of Fred Flintstone's marriage to Wilma...Sheldon's stories read deceptively easily, like comic books, like watching TV, and are often very funny. They are also an acute look at what it is to be young, male and English. His characters are diffident, blocked, emotionally muted, caught between the momentum of their desires and the frustrating clutches of their anxieties.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780224062718
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95365221
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Comfort Zone
Author
Jeremy Sheldon
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories, Books
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
340g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeremy Sheldon
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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