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    Happy Mutant Baby Pills: A Novel
    Happy Mutant Baby Pills: A Novel
    Happy Mutant Baby Pills: A Novel
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    Happy Mutant Baby Pills: A Novel

    Written by Jerry Stahl

    Narrated by Peter Ganim

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    Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is ""to recite and minimize""—sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical.

    Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help.

    Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world and exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9780062293220
    Author

    Jerry Stahl

    Jerry Stahl is the author of six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight (made into a movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) and the novels I, Fatty and Pain Killers. Formerly the culture columnist for Details, Stahl's fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, and the Believer, among other places. He has worked extensively in film and television and, most recently, wrote Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, for HBO.

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    • 4/5
      I received this galley book as a First Reads.

      This was a fascinating read. At times I cringed, at other times I laughed out loud.

      Told in the first-person by Lloyd, a writer of sorts who is also a heroin addict. When he meets Nora, a seriously disturbed individual, he falls quickly in love and into trouble.

      Nora's plan to expose the big chemical companies and the government for poisoning the earth and the people in it is horrifying. But Lloyd is too far gone to not participate. The ending was both funny, and sadly touching.

      Very thought provoking, but entertaining reading.