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Originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, and clip art to enhance the text, which primarily tells of a race war that happens in Florida, where the Jewish people sit in trees, the black people are run by MC Hammer, and the white people are run by Vanilla Ice. Or as the author himself described it front of a national television audience, "I wanted to write the Great American Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel." In actuality, it is a collection of hard-luck stories, off-and-on-color jokes, script scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks, and other missing scenes, all exploring the world of show business with fingers prying in the cracks and feet set lightly in the black humors of the real world. With chapters about books found in Monty Clift's basement and Tupac Shakur's 10 favorite novels, and a set of 11 suicide notes with room included for the reader's signature, the book is a one-of-a-kind post-postmodern examination of the dangers of public life from a unique voice in independent culture, one that might make William S. Burroughs sigh and turn the page at least.

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"Funny and BEYOND original"

Product details

  • Paperback 172 pages
  • Publisher Drag City; Reprint edition (April 16, 2013)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10 1937112101

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A CrackUp at the Race Riots Harmony Korine Books Reviews


  • Strange, experimental book, where each piece could easily stand alone and ideas skate roughshod from one place to another as effortlessly and inexplicably as clouds reflected in broken mirrors.

    There is absolutely no obvious through-line to this book, no narrator, no narrative really, no conventionally connected storyline--just a series of lists and ideas that seem to accumulate into something for both the author and publisher, but something that escaped me entirely on my first read.

    The only time present is time within each tiny and seemingly larval idea lump, there's no sense of progress or building toward anything.

    I'm guessing this is what is considered by some to be its genius. I'm gonna have to give it some time, then read it again.
  • Harmony Korine's novel is as original as his films. As Werner Herzog notes, this is a completely new voice in fiction. Korine scrapes the underbelly of racist America and spreads pop-culture filth, concocting a novel out of the trash we consume and hump. See his interview on Letterman about this novel--it's as priceless as the book he was "promoting."
  • This book was written when Harmony Korine was still heavy into drugs and it's very evident in the composition. If you enjoy smoking crack and/or huffing solvents, you will most likely enjoy this book.
  • Leona Upton My boy was burned in a great fire.
    Joseph Mohr Did he die?
    Leona Upton Yes. (She begins to cry.)
    Joseph Mohr Then how my dear could the fire be great ?

    Need I say more ?
  • Thank you
  • A little pretentious, but overall enjoyable.
  • Funny and BEYOND original
  • .....stale at others. Korine is a great writer of movies. He knows what he wants to see and he captures it (Gummo, Julien donkey-boy). When it comes to this book, he is hit & miss. The tasteless jokes are great and so are fictionalized stories of celebrity lives, but I'd say only half of these tales work in print. Korine needs a camera to get the images in his head across to his audience. For now, this is a funny toilet read. Give us another movie, Harmony.

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