Whistler's Mother's Son and Other Curiosities

By Peter Cherches

Whistler's Mother's Son collects over 100 prose pieces of varying length and styles--from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. Featuring parodies, standardized tests, nursery-rhyme anxieties, fables, riddles, collaborations, conundrums, rescued clich s, abominations-in-training, dark Americana, existential misdemeanors, misbegotten mysteries, identity crises, optimistic nihilism, formal experimentation, and polyrhythmic prose, its cast of characters includes Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Amelia Earhart, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a little girl whose mother takes up with a smelly old man, embattled aunties and uncles, a man with two mustaches, several hard-boiled dicks, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949790177
• ISBN13: 9781949790177
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Pelekinesis
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"