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In this satiric romp inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, set in 2041, government-sanctioned vigilantes--the Good Humor Men--ruthlessly patrol the streets, immolating all fattening food products as illegal contraband. A pound of real chocolate is worth more on the black market than a kilo of cocaine. Evil "nutraceutical" company MannaSantos controls the food market with genetically modified products, such as "Leanie Lean" meats. But the craze for svelte healthfulness has reached a critical turning point, as a mysterious wasting plague threatens to starve all of humanity. A lone ex-plastic surgeon and founding Good Humor Man, whose father performed a secret liposuction surgery on Elvis Presley, holds the key to humanity's future. In a mad dash to retrieve his family heirloom--the mortal remains of the King's belly fat--Dr. Louis Shmalzberg becomes entangled with a civil servant of questionable motives, an acquisitive assassin from a wealthy Caliphate, a power-mad preacher evangelizing anorexia, a beautiful young woman addicted to liposuction, and a homicidal clone from a MannaSantos experiment gone terribly wrong. Can Elvis save the world sixty-four years after his death?

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Science fiction

• Full title: Good Humor Man
• Subtitle: Or, Calorie 3501
• Author: Andrew Fox
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9781892391858
• ISBN: 1892391856
• ID: 05014484
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 133 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2009

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