Free-Range Chickens

✍ Scribed by Simon Rich

• Book ID: 100223604
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 59 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299075320

✦ Synopsis

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm , Simon Rich found humor in some of life's most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Liv e has returned to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world.

In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his fear of the Tooth Fairy ("Is there a face fairy?") and his initial reaction to the "Got-your-nose" game ("Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster"). He goes on to present Count Dracula's desperate Match.com profile ("I am normal human looking for human woman to come to castle. I am normal, regular human"). Later, he gets inside the heads of two firehouse Dalmatians who can't understand their masters' compulsion to drive off to horrible fires every day.__ And in the final chapter, he tackles some of life's biggest questions: Does God really have a plan for us? Yes,__ it turns out. Now...