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JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS

JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS

by TonyVigorito (Author)

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Synopsis

Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: Uh-oh. An anonymous interlocutor writes back: When? Blip slyly answers: Just a couple of days. But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain - a molecular biologist - is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. The virus being tested - cleverly called the Pied Piper - renders its victims incapable of symbolic capacity; that is, incapable of communication. Is this biological weaponry? What would happen if it were let loose on the world? Does a babbling populace pose a threat or provide an opportunity for social evolution?This novel's absurd, larger-than-life characters speak in exuberant prose that is as satirical as it is playful, as full of implications as it is full of mirth. It's no wonder Just a Couple of Days has become an underground cult classic.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Harcourt Trade
Published: 01 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 0156031221
ISBN 13: 9780156031226

Media Reviews
A Dr. Strangelove for the biotech century. Just a Couple of Days is savvy, wickedly funny, and profoundly disturbing.

--Richard Heinberg author of Powerdown
PRAISE FOR JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS
Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read.It reminds me of my own first novel, Another Roadside Attraction, in that it almost completely defies what we've been taught that a novel ought to be... If philosophical ideas wereharpoons, Tony Vigorito could turn every whale in Ahab'socean intofloating pincushions... Tom Robbins A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it! CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of LAMB and A DIRTY JOB This is the kind of literary enjoyment so many people say you shouldn t have, and then worry about when you start to draw larger conclusions from . . . I d go so far as to say that this novel is folk heroic and should be read by anyone who still values their capacity to think for themselves. KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of ZANESVILLE

PRAISE FOR JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read.It reminds me of my own first novel, Another Roadside Attraction, in that it almost completely defies what we've been taught that a novel ought to be... If philosophical ideas wereharpoons, Tony Vigorito could turn every whale in Ahab'socean intofloating pincushions... Tom Robbins

A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it! CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of LAMB and A DIRTY JOB

This is the kind of literary enjoyment so many people say you shouldn t have, and then worry about when you start to draw larger conclusions from . . . I d go so far as to say that this novel is folk heroic and should be read by anyone who still values their capacity to think for themselves. KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of ZANESVILLE


A Dr. Strangelove for the biotech century. Just a Couple of Days is savvy, wickedly funny, and profoundly disturbing. --Richard Heinberg author of Powerdown
Just a Couple of Days is a lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it! --Christopher Moore author of You Suck

PRAISE FOR JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS

Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read. It reminds me of my own first novel, Another Roadside Attraction, in that it almost completely defies what we've been taught that a novel ought to be... If philosophical ideas were harpoons, Tony Vigorito could turn every whale in Ahab's ocean into floating pincushions... --Tom Robbins

A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it! --CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of LAMB and A DIRTY JOB

This is the kind of literary enjoyment so many people say you shouldn't have, and then worry about when you start to draw larger conclusions from . . . I'd go so far as to say that this novel is 'folk heroic' and should be read by anyone who still values their capacity to think for themselves. --KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of ZANESVILLE


Just a Couple of Days is a lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it! --Christopher Moore author of You Suck