This series of 23 satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary French suburb via the strange, grotesque small-town occupations that defined a once reliable, now presumably vanished way of life.

A catalog of job descriptions that range from the disgusting functions of “The Snot-Remover” and “The Wiper” to the shockingly cruel dramas enacted by “The Skinner” and “The Snowman,” Odd Jobs evinces an outrageous, uncomfortable and savage sense of humor.

Through these narratives somewhere between parody and prose poem, Duvert assaults parenthood, priesthood and neighborhood in this mock handbook to suburban living: Leave It to Beaver as written by William Burroughs.

Author: Tony Duvert 
Translators: S.C. Delaney / Agnès Potier
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Page Count: 64pp
Size: 4.5 x 6.75
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: November 17, 2017
ISBN: 978-1939663290