Mall
, by Bogosian, EricNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780743214551 | 0743214552
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/10/2002
From the award-winning avatar of contemporary urban theater and author of such modern classics asTalk RadioandsubUrbiacomes this outrageous novel about five suburbanites whose lives intersect in one violent and life-altering night -- at the local mall.Mal, a thirtysomething speed freak, shoots his mother, torches his house, and heads to the local mall with a sack of weapons and a plan for more mayhem. Danny, a voyeuristic businessman with a fetish for young underwear models, is caught by mall security peeking into dressing rooms at JCPenney. Jeff, a teenager with existential troubles, drops acid and departs on a philosophical nightmare. Donna, a hungry, unsettled housewife, is on the lookout for a one-night stand. Michel, a Haitian immigrant and mall security guard, seeks salvation. All long for a kind of satisfaction, and this longing leads them to the modern plaza of possibility, the shopping mall, where their appetites converge in explosive ways.Satirical and provocative, Mall is an eye-opening look at suburban life and the idea of "normalcy." In this, his first novel, Eric Bogosian delivers a dark, hilarious, and biting commentary on an American culture fraught with sex, drugs, violence, and congested thinking.