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James Carpenter’s latest book, a farcical work of comedic literary fiction set in 1950s Appalachia, plumbs the depths of the human condition through everymen Chuck and Hank’s post-vasectomy quest for twenty ejaculations—the number the doctor says they need before they can be pronounced sterile.
Via skillfully rendered tropes rife with traditional irony, postmodern parody, and a whole slew of other really smart devices, Carpenter deftly guides his guys through misfortunes that would crush less courageous men: Mean-spirited doctors and nurses, judgmental preachers, nasty prudish neighbors, an inexplicable out-of-wedlock pregnancy, a red-headed Faulkner scholar from Mississippi with rugged good looks to die for, and a mailbox stuffed with dog poop. But in the end true love finds a way that isn’t at all Hollywood. Okay, it’s a little bit Hollywood, but in a dazzlingly iconoclastic way!
See the trailer on YouTube and check the publisher’s website for the full details (some omitted here for the sake of the children’s impressionable minds).
