Odd Jobs

This series of twenty-three satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary French suburb via the strange, grotesque small-town occupations that defined a once reliable, now presumably vanished way of life. A catalog of job descriptions that range from the disgusting functions of “The Snot-Remover” and “The Wiper” to the shockingly cruel dramas enacted by “The Skinner” and “The Snowman,” Odd Jobs offers an outrageous, uncomfortable, and savage sense of humor. Through these narratives somewhere between parody and prose poem, Tony Duvert assaults parenthood, priesthood, and neighborhood in this mock handbook to suburban living: a Sadean Leave it to Beaver as written by William Burroughs.

• Author
• Tony Duvert, S.C. Delaney, Agnes Potier

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 56

• Publisher
• Wakefield Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781939663290

• Genres
• fiction, france

• Release date
• 2017