Dimensions
130 x 198 x 17mm
When Ira Fishblatt s girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his apartment, he has the kitchen renovated to make her feel at home. She is tickled pink, but hundreds of other houseguests aren t - the cockroaches who d been living high on the hog before they were starved out. Famine slowly drives them into a frenzy until one, named Numbers, comes up with a diabolical plan: with the unwitting help of Rufus, the local cocaine dealer, they ll encourage a romance between Ira and the pretty neighbour, Elizabeth, and rid themselves forever of Ruth and her damnable tidiness. Weiss is a witty fabulist whose animals have profound things to say about the human condition. The Roaches Have No King, his hilarious and disturbing masterpiece, is one of the great comic American novels of the 20th century.
