Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Advisors: Reeves, Robert; Jones, Kaylie; Simonson, Helen
Date
2017-12-01
Keywords
Creative writing
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature | Thesis
Language
en
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78296
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
The Bulgarian Training Manual is a comic novel that tells the story of Christina Acqualina Bontempi (a.k.a. Tina) in her quest to find her true parents and jeans that fit. With the help of a mysterious book with magical powers, Tina makes her way from her waterlogged apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, to a hallucinogenic visit to Bulgaria and back. Our heroine is catalyst for a final contest that is part body-builder pose-off and part poetry slam. The novel is a sly look at self-improvement. Those who follow The Bulgarian Training Manual not only bulk up muscle mass, they become poets. | 330 pages
Recommended Citation
Bonapace, Ruth, "The Bulgarian Training Manual" (2017). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3790.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3790