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Full Metal Jhacket

Part of the 21st Century Prose series
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Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick.

A 150-year-old woman on the run from the government is tracked down by the company who extended her life.

A military contractor carrying his robot son in a gym bag struggles to find his way out of the Nigerian delta during a bloody civil war.

The wife of an up-and-coming politician grieves his infidelity by prowling rooftops with a sniper rifle.

Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places.

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0472036157 / 9780472036158
Paperback / softback
813.6
30/12/2014
United States
156 pages
152 x 229 mm, 245 grams
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