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Elect Mr Robinson for a better world

"A dark, suburban fantasy ... richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar." 'The New YorkerIn the seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, and his public execution was a messy affair. As these hawkish suburbanites fortify their houses with deadly moats and land mines, a former third-grade teacher named Pete Robinson steps forward with a tenuous bid to replace the mayor. But can anyone satisfy the terrible will of the people' By turns funny and phantasmagorical, fiercely intelligent and imaginative, Donald Antrim's story of suburban civics turned macabre is a new American classic.

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  • "Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world"@it
  • "Elect Mister Robinson for a better world"
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  • ""A dark, suburban fantasy ... richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar." 'The New YorkerIn the seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missiles into the Botanical Garden reflecting pool, and his public execution was a messy affair. As these hawkish suburbanites fortify their houses with deadly moats and land mines, a former third-grade teacher named Pete Robinson steps forward with a tenuous bid to replace the mayor. But can anyone satisfy the terrible will of the people' By turns funny and phantasmagorical, fiercely intelligent and imaginative, Donald Antrim's story of suburban civics turned macabre is a new American classic."@en
  • "Tells of the world of two elementary schoolteachers in a world made riotous by life's mysterious and sometimes violent accidents."
  • "Rien ne va plus depuis que Jim Kunkel, l'ancien maire, s'est donné en spectacle en tirant sans discernement des missiles dans le jardin botanique, provoquant la mort de nombreux pique-niqueurs. Les habitants trouveront-ils en Robinson, instituteur moraliste, historien dilettante, idéaliste à l'esprit civique, l'homme de la situation ?"

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  • "Black humor"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Humorous stories"

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  • "Elect Mr Robinson for a better world"@en
  • "Elect Mr Robinson for a better world"
  • "Votez Robinson"
  • "Elect M. Robinson for a better world : a novel"
  • "Elect mr. robinson for a better world a novel"@en
  • "Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world"
  • "Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world"@en
  • "Votate Robinson per un mondo migliore"
  • "Votate Robinson per un mondo migliore"@it
  • "Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world : [a novel]"
  • "Die Beschiessung des botanischen Gartens"

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