The Short Version: A collection of slightly-off-kilter stories of romance, work, and ordinary life. Full of humor and invention, decidedly playful with the form, John Warner delivers – whether he’s telling the tale of an organ-grinder’s monkey, a beef slaughter plant, or a couple who grow poets on their farm. The Review: John Warner’s novel The Funny Man didn’t make too much of a splash several years back. A damn shame, because it was a strange and funny sort of tale – a […]

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