Five Fingers Make A Fist _p_Top Shelf Almost more of a book

Almost more of a book than a magazine

Foreword by Morgan Spurlock

Taking the position that America’s love affair with cars and highways is not a cultural phenomenon but a problem of entrenched economic and political forces

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Five Fingers Make A Fist _p_Top Shelf Almost more of a bookEvoking Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau, where the same story is retold 99 times, Alexander Laurence has taken storytelling as the subject of his book. Five Fingers Make A Fist juxtaposes extreme realism, science, poetry and theater in 28 stories told through various points of view, from a baby narrator in "My Birth" to an old lady waiting to die in "The Ballad of Nariyama." Many of the stories take place in San Francisco in the 1990s, yet they