Driving My Baby Back Home

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From Sharon Stone to Charles Bukowski, from Lenin to the man who shot JFK, this bizarre collection of 35 short fictions radically revises twentieth-century history and culture. UNDERWEAR - Watching videos results in disturbing voyages through time and space for Lise and Annabelle, as well as surprises for Matthew Arnold and Henry James. TYMPOPTANOMANIA - Laird’s visit to the Isle of Wight in search of the ghost of Karl Marx results in the astonishing Theory of Tympoptanomia. ULYSSES - Joyce’s masterpiece helpfully shortened and rewritten around a much more important day than 16 June 1904. LOST - 800 police officers were lost last year, with alarming consequences for a distant moon.