A surreal, time-bending odyssey. A freak show owner sends Reuben Hecht-who has been stuck at age 17 for twenty years - and Edwina-who can switch age at will-to a mysterious Colony to recover androids. Stuck in a house that is not his home, Ruben is beaten by his mother for procrastinating on his homework for the Holy German Paintbrush Distance Learning Academy; his father has taken to his bed to hatch a dwarf. He goes to a concert by the rock group, The Flesh-eating Fetish Bitches, and decides to run away, pursued by the parish priest who wants to put him in a children's home, since he will never come of age.
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Having mysteriously remained 17 years old for two decades, the dopey Rueben Hecht gives new meaning to the term psychosocial moratorium and that's just the beginning of his problems in Eugen Egner's comic, insanity-riddled Androids from Milk, translated from the German by Mike Mitchell. Rueben's parents have apparently committed suicide, his doctor wants to put him in a kids' home and Rueben and his age-shifting sidekick, Edwina, must embark on an "android-procurement" mission that will uncover dark and surprising family secrets.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Eugen Egner is well-known in Germany as a writer, graphic artist, and cartoonist. He has written radio plays, short stories and novels including: Cosmic Flip, From the Diary of an Alcoholic, When Father Christmas Was Mother Christmas, The Diaries of WA Mozart and The Artificial Man.
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For twenty years they had persuaded Reuben Hecht that he was studying official illustration at the Holy German Paintbrush Distance Learning Academy in Brunswick. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
For twenty years they had persuaded Reuben Hecht that he was studying official illustration at the Holy German Paintbrush Distance Learning Academy in Brunswick. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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