
The President's Parasite
by Jim Musgrave
In The President's Parasite,
Jim Musgrave resurrects all that has gone
missing in today's literature: originality.
The title story is a Kafkaesque piece from
the point-of-view of an intellectual
tapeworm trapped inside a moronic president,
and the satirical impact is worthy of Swift.
The other stories range from a widower
trapped inside the Clock Tower in Baghdad
that he constructed, to a baseball pitcher
who becomes a living vegetable after a
batted ball strikes his head. All in all,
there is something for everyone in this
collection of 30 eye-popping stories from a
truly gifted author.
Praise for
The President's Parasite
"Stephen
King commented in one of his books–sorry I
don’t remember which one–that the popularity
of short story compilations has lost favor
with contemporary readers, and I guess he
should know. If that is indeed the case, I
would ask that you make an exception and
consider reading Jim Musgrave’s The
President’s Parasite and Other Stories as
this is an exceptional book–contemporary,
insightful, poignantly honest–a glimpse into
the down- or back-side of life."
--Kaye
Trout's Book Reviews
"Jim Musgrave is
a talented writer with brilliant ideas.
His writing shows he is an educated man and
very well-rounded. He can talk freely
about religion, politics and worldwide
events with a vast knowledge.
Moreover, his short stories will make you
think and laugh. I really enjoyed
reading this book and I recommend it to
anyone who wants to get a good laugh at the
world around us."
-- Manuela Pop,
Bookpleasures.com
View Manuela Pop's complete review here
"As an author, Musgrave
exhibits two extraordinarily developed qualities: sharpness
of perception, and vivid depiction of human characters. One
feature binding all the stories in
The President's
Parasite
is the urge to realize where the problem lies and the need
to work out how to tackle it. In this sense, these stories
are a practical guide to wise judgment and use of one's
brains."
--Ernest
Dempsey, TCM Reviews
About the Author
An
award-winning writer and journalist, Jim Musgrave
has been both a semi-finalist and a finalist in the
Heekin Foundation Award for Fiction, a panel member
at the San Diego State Annual Writer's Conference, a
Panel Member at the First Annual ReBA-Con 2000 in
San Francisco. Musgrave has published four novels
and one short story collection through CiC
Publishers: Sins of Darkness, Russian
Wolves, Lucifer’s Wedding and Iron
Maiden. His short fiction has appeared in many
literary magazines, including: Stone Magazine,
San Diego Writer’s Monthly, California
Quarterly, and online at Outsiderink.com and
Ramble Underground. He also published
The
Digital Scribe: A Writer's Guide to Electronic
Media (Harcourt Brace, 1996). He lives in San
Diego with his wife, Ellen, and they both teach
college English courses.
Listen to the author read the title story
Contact the author,
Jim Musgrave, regarding an appearance
or conference call with your book club or group at the e-mail
address below:
Email:
jimmusgrave@cox.net
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