Our Circus Presents
Author(s): Lucian Dan Teodorovici
Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself-and never does. The Birdman is a member of a loose-knit group of failed suicides, each pursuing absurd ways to end their lives: one saving up lost-dog reward money to buy enough good whiskey to drink himself to death, another hoping to contract a fatal disease by sleeping with as many women as possible. When it seems these routines will continue indefinitely, the Birdman meets a "professional" suicide: the dangerous and inscrutable "man with orange suspenders," who makes a living by trying to hang himself whenever he sees a potential rescuer approaching. This chance encounter, which leads at last to a real death, will force the Birdman to confront the roots of his desire to escape from life, and to see first-hand that dying is more than just a rehearsal.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : Dalkey Archive Press
- : 0.248
- : 22 December 2009
- : 202mm X 143mm X 15mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lucian Dan Teodorovici
- : Paperback
- : 859.335
- : 189