Mark Jude Poirier
Author
Publisher
Talk Miramax Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Depraved and entertaining, a delightful collection of short fiction introduces the misfits and visionaries who embody the ambition and insanity of the American entreprenuer, examining such eccentric, yet lucrative, industries as worm farms, pearl-button making, pornography, and beauty pageantry.
3) Naked pueblo
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Stories on college students. The story, La Zona Roja, is on a trip to a brothel in Mexico, while in Something Good a thrift store turns out to be an Ali Baba's cave of pop-culture junk for students who are working there.
4) Smart people
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment...
5) Goats
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called Goat Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store, but not in the way you'd think.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
7) Goats
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called Goat Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store, but not in the way you₂d think.
