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    The Normals: A Novel
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    The Normals: A Novel

    By David Gilbert

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    In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury USA
    Release dateDec 1, 2008
    ISBN9781596917897
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    The Normals: A Novel
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    David Gilbert

    David Gilbert is the author of the short-story collection Remote Feed and the novels, The Normals and & Sons. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, GQ and Bomb. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

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