The Shanghai Gesture (Out of Print)

ABOUT This book is now out of print. "[Gary Indiana] is the primary reporter of the underground, the dissociation of cultures, the new behaviors; there is a sense that if you want to understand what has happened in America, you would have to read Gary Indiana. And this newest book is a leap forward."—Michael Silverblatt, KCRW's Bookworm Synopsis A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land’s End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship, the Ardent Somdomite. Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort, Dr. Obregon Petrie, attempt to thwart Fu Manchu’s latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American Piyas, matching wits with a club-footed ex-Stasi, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies. The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana = * In most cases, none of these writers endorse this book. Our math formulas are supposed to be amusing anecdotes, similar to