Incurable Trucks \u0026 Speeding Diseases: Stories By Crad Kilodney
Pretty typical Crad. I particularly liked the story about the man whose perceived sexual inadequacies lead him to get angry at the manager of a Bruno's over a twenty-cent overcharge. When he decides to tell a more-or-less straight-forward story, he can be really very good. Incurable Trucks \u0026 Speeding Diseases: Stories Solid collection of five stories from the mid-eighties, probably his most consistent period. Night Barber, Ultratech, and The Newspapers are the highlights here.
3. 75 stars Incurable Trucks \u0026 Speeding Diseases: Stories
The infamous Crad Kilodney, Toronto's perennial street author, enemy of the Normals, champion of the Mutants, and black sheep of CanLit, is back with another collection of bizarre satirical stories. In INCURABLE TRUCKS & SPEEDING DISEASES, you will meet:
*a would-be suicide who calls a distress line and is unable to get a word in edgewise
*a crackpot Turkish scientist who has invented the ultimate system for dominating others
*a neurotic suburbanite who confides his most intimate sexual problem to the Armenian truck driver who picks up his newspapers
*Morris K. Jessup, the Night Barber, who opens his shop only at night and whose patrons are all insane
*the Central Computer of the TTC's new automated subway, which will cut your feet off if you don't take them off the seat! Incurable Trucks \u0026 Speeding Diseases: Stories