02050cam a2200301 i 4500 605163906 TxAuBib 20220912120000.0 220330s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982198046 hardcover 1982198044 hardcover TxAuBib rda Buckley, Christopher, 1952-, author. Has anyone seen my toes? / Christopher Buckley. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. 270 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia! But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He's been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier. And he's discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner's race. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County? Could it be the local military base? 20220912. Screenwriters -- Fiction. . COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Fiction. . Overweight men -- Fiction. . Distraction (Psychology) -- Fiction. . Humorous fiction. BSBPL