Fischer, Tibor

New York. 2000. September 2000. Metropolitan Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0805066012. 261 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Frnak Marchese. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Tibor Fischer has been called ‘a Joseph Conrad with jokes' (London Sunday Times). Once again he earns the title with a story collection that ranges from dark, high-voltage wisecracking to a sober and moving pessimism about the sorry condition of humans on the cusp of the new millennium. Here are those left behind by the vacuous nineties: a failed Web site salesman who cannot connect with others, a failed artist, a failed cowboy, a failed solicitor-seducer, a bookseller primed for failure as he tries to read every book in the world, and a venomous stand-up comedienne who has fallen from grace. From London to the French Riviera, from Edinburgh to Romania, in the New Europe only the ruthless succeed: the weak are cowed by the strong, the poor are fleeced by the rich, and the ugly are bested by the cosmetically enhanced. Reveling in the absurdities of his characters' predicament, Tibor Fischer rescues them from a relentlessly dark fate. Laced with exuberant narrative and matchless comic invention, I LIKE BEING KILLED reveals the struggle of intelligence to make sense of our twenty-first-century world. inventory #28275 ISBN: 0805066012.