ISBN: 0-88739-254-7
160 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 9/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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How I Beat The Traffic Jam and Found Love
Howard Jarmy
How I Beat the Traffic Jam and Found Love is the title story of a collection of short stories that read easily and cover the gamut of possible themes. From the secret life of a belly dancer, murderous sweet peas, the man who found the lost chord, android football players, detectives Glug McClue and Silky, the dizzy attendee at a frenzied shower, the oldest man in the world, two in the tunnel of love, and Shakespeare's flying pickle barrel, to the title story itself: a wild melding of ingenuity and love. There are takeoffs on the Princess and the Pea and Red Riding Hood, an adventure story loaded with purposely-planted clichés, and one about a frugal suburbanite with garbage problems. And still others.
Review: "Jarmy demonstrates a wide-ranging curiosity about the human condition and a never-failing sense of humor. His zest for life, no matter how difficult it gets, comes through loud and clear."
-Los Altos Town Crier, Los Altos, California
Bio: HOWARD JARMY, born in Chicago, admits that he is (or has been) an engineer, farmer, sailor, flyer, baker, musician, artist, and tango dancer. Author of a text on mechanism design, he has also written symphony reviews, humorous essays, and investment articles. This is his first book with Creative Arts.
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