Binding: Paperback
Description: The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking and by heartbreaking I mean funny and by funny I mean laugh - until - you re - exhausted - and - leaking - and - hungry. Miranda July Zloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford where both the cuisine and the economy such as they are are highly dependent on pickled vegetables laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate attention of the local bureaucracy and by morning Zloty has been branded an instigator conspirator and fomentor sentenced to death or worse. His only hope lies with his dysfunctional troupe a morose contortionist a strongman who d rather be miming a lion tamer paired with an elderly dog a ragged band of misfits and failures who must somehow spring Zloty from his cell at the top of the Confinement Needle. Their arcane skills become strangely useful and unlikely success follows unlikely success. Until suddenly the successes end leaving only Flora Bialy Zloty's understudy and our shy narrator to save the day. Punctuated with evocative woodcuts by Ian Huebert Eli Horowitz's The Pickle Index is a fast - moving fable full of deadpan humor and absurd twists and an innovative exhilarating storytelling experience.
Title: The Pickle Index A Novel
Author(s): Horowitz Eli
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374535810
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/3/2015
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction