Everything Abridged
  • Published:
    May-2022 (Hardcover)
    Apr-2023 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    320
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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-2023
    • The Overlook Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1419760971
    • ISBN13: 9781419760976
    • First Edition
    • May-2022
    • The Overlook Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1419760963
    • ISBN13: 9781419760969
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    • May-2022
    • Harry N. Abrams
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1647006368
    • ISBN13: 9781647006365



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