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" Kockroach / "
Tyler Knox.
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BL
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| Record Number
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985366
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b739736
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| Main Entry
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Knox, Tyler.
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| Title & Author
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Kockroach /\ Tyler Knox.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Harper Perennial ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harper Perennial,, 2008.
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356, 15 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0061143340
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: 9780061143342
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| Notes
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Includes P.S. : insights, interviews & more ...
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| Abstract
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"It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of all things, a human. This tragic turn of events would be enough to fling a more highly evolved creature into despair, but cockroaches know no despair. Firmly entrenched in the present tense, they are awesome coping machines, and so Kockroach copes. Step by step, he learns the ways of humans - how to walk, how to talk, how to wear a jaunty brown fedora. As Kockroach, led by his primitive desires and insectile amorality, navigates through the bizarre human realms of crime, business, politics, and sex, he meets with both great triumph and great disaster. Will he find success or be squashed flat from above? Will he change humanity, or will humanity change him?"--Taken from cover p.4.
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Cockroaches, Fiction.
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Cockroaches, Fiction.
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Cockroaches.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.6
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PS3562.A75249K63 2008
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