Description: A novel about an avenue. "Flying Saucers Loner Hennepin" is the story of the fate of Minneapolis after the invasion that took place in the the late 1980s -- the Go-Go years, the Junk Bond age. While the yuppies were hustling and getting theirs, and the slackers were slacking, Hennepin Avenue was overrun by doppleganger mannequins. You might be one yourself. The proof is all right here, in this "fictional romp of a novel -- or is this book a factual document somehow overlooked by the invades from the zarathustra with X-ray deflecting glasses, "Flying Saucers Over Hennepin crushes the false idols. Gelman's work is a corrosively funny, sadly romantic, and ultimately eye-opening novel of our consumptive fin de siecle times.

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