Movie Stars by Jack Pendarvis
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes, and recurring characters—cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts, and fools—but mostly by the movie stars, gods, and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of benevolence and wrath. From Scarlett Johansson to Joan Crawford, Clint Eastwood to Jerry Lewis, they represent the impossible ideals to which lesser beings turn for hope in an otherwise baffling world.
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
Paperback: 177 pages
ISBN: 978-1-938103-45-2
Also available as an eBook
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes, and recurring characters—cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts, and fools—but mostly by the movie stars, gods, and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of benevolence and wrath. From Scarlett Johansson to Joan Crawford, Clint Eastwood to Jerry Lewis, they represent the impossible ideals to which lesser beings turn for hope in an otherwise baffling world.
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
Paperback: 177 pages
ISBN: 978-1-938103-45-2
Also available as an eBook
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes, and recurring characters—cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts, and fools—but mostly by the movie stars, gods, and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of benevolence and wrath. From Scarlett Johansson to Joan Crawford, Clint Eastwood to Jerry Lewis, they represent the impossible ideals to which lesser beings turn for hope in an otherwise baffling world.
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
Paperback: 177 pages
ISBN: 978-1-938103-45-2
Also available as an eBook
PRAISE FOR MOVIE STARS
“Every minute you are not yet reading Jack Pendarvis should be an interminable agony.”
—Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi
“I like all of the yearning weirdos who wander through the work of Jack Pendarvis. You will like them too, because he reminds us we are all yearning weirdos, looking to the stars, movie and otherwise, for some fate and guidance. These stories are true ha ha funny, courageously strange, humane and affecting, and really, really good.”
—John Hodgman, author of That Is All
“Funny, poetic, vivid, unique. Jack Pendarvis has crafted a collection of gems.”
—Lauren Graham, author of Someday, Someday Maybe
“Movie Stars is a collection of short subjects that hit like blockbusters.”
—Patton Oswalt, author of Silver Screen Fiend
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Pendarvis the author of three previous books of fiction and one of nonfiction. A former columnist for both the Oxford Americanand The Believer, he is a writer and story editor for the Peabody award-winning television show Adventure Time. He lives in Oxford, MS.
