Bibliograph

Enormity, W.G. Marshall

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Enormity, W.G. Marshall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Enormity

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

774274332

Responsibility statement

W.G. Marshall

Summary

Enormity is the strange tale of an American working in Korea, a lonely young man named Manny Lopes, who is not only physically small (in his own words, he's a "Creole shrimp"), but his work, his failed marriage, his race, all conspire to make him feel puny and insignificant-the proverbial ninety-eight-pound weakling. Then one day an accident happens, a quantum explosion, and suddenly Manny awakens to discover that he is big-really big. In fact, Manny is enormous, a mile-high colossus! Now there's no stopping him: he's a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Yet he means well. Enormity takes some odd turns, featuring characters like surfing gangbangers, elderly terrorists, and a North Korean assassin who thinks she's Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. There's also sex, violence, and action galore, with the army throwing everything it has against the rampaging colossus that is Manny Lopes. But there's only one weapon that has any chance at all of stopping him:..

Table Of Contents

Prologue: THE LEAF-BLOWER; Chapter One: THE QUEENS; Chapter Two: MANNY AND RUTH; Chapter Three: BLACK HOLE; Chapter Four: MT. SURIBACHI; Chapter Five: THE LAST SUPPER; Chapter Six: ON THE GROUND; Chapter Seven: LIMBO; Chapter Eight: THE SHADOW OF DEATH; Chapter Nine: MR. SURIBACHI; Chapter Ten: ROAMING CHARGES; Chapter Eleven: ON THE FACE; Chapter Twelve: HIGH ANXIETY; Chapter Thirteen: TALKING TURKEY; Chapter Fourteen: SCHWARTZWALD; Chapter Fifteen: LIVING LARGE; Chapter Sixteen: STEERING COMMITTEE; Chapter Seventeen: HEAD AND SHOULDERS; Chapter Eighteen: END-RUNChapter Nineteen: THE MILE-HIGH CLUBChapter Twenty: ZULU BEACH; Chapter Twenty-One: IN 'ER EAR; Chapter Twenty-Two: THE ITSY-BITSY SPIDER; Chapter Twenty-Three: ROCKET MAN; Chapter Twenty-Four: RIO COLORADO; Chapter Twenty-Five: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS; Chapter Twenty-Six: SLOUCHING TO BETHLEHEM; Epilogue: HOME SWEET HOME; Acknowledgments; About the Author

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