Pointless Pursuit: My Year of Picaresque Personal Ads

A petty act of revenge in the form of a droll online personal ad generated appreciative fan mail, turning the author's head, and leading to this, an embarkation on a year-long project of writing and posting story-style "personals" on Cragislist. Readers have described these vignettes (with admiration) as byzantine, ridiculously obscure, and slapstick. A true parody of the genre, filled with historical trivia and tinted by a nostalgia for the past...

By C. W. Shain
Paperback: 116 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 30, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781478363651
ISBN-13: 978-1478363651
ASIN: 1478363657
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.3 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 6356786
Format: PDF Text djvu book

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Pointless Pursuit is a collection of nonsensical personal ads that author C.W. Shain posted on Craigslist over the course of a year. What started out as retaliation against people being cruel to one Craigslist poster's ad turned into one writer's wa

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