Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright
From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.
A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes--and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.
Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything--and nothing at all.
Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.
A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes--and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.
Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything--and nothing at all.
Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.
Stephen Wright is a Widjabul resident. His pieces have won the Eureka St Prize, the Nature Conservancy Prize, the Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize (twice), and the Scarlett Award, among others, and have been shortlisted for several others. Stephen works part-time as the manager of a NSW non-profit that provides men's behavior change programs for men who use violence in the household, as well as a counsellor who provides long-term psychotherapy to women and men who have endured childhood violence and abuse. Little Owl will publish Stephen's nonfiction novella A Lantern, Brought Down a Dark Road.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316043373 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316043370 |
| Title | Processed Cheese |
| Author | Stephen Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown And Company |
| Year published | 2020-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |