Dimensions
151 x 233 x 19mm
Roo Kickkick had been living in the town of Barguss less than two months before someone picked a fight with him and broke his face wide open. The person who did this to him was . . .
Raoul de los Dios, who had six fingers on his right hand. But Roo Kickkick wasn't the first person Raoul beat up. That person was . . .
Thorpe Thorpe. He had an electric/acoustic band called Autistik/Artistik. The band had achieved a certain cult status locally and we knew that when . . .
Florence Mink went to one of their shows. She was born to be a star and everybody knew it. Roo had a hard pining for Florence but her boyfriend was . . .
Monroe Mister Promised To. He was the kid of the guy that practically owned all of Barguss (car washes and strip malls and ice cream stands) and he always looked bored. Then everything changed.
That's the day the blimp came. That's when this starts.
Barguss may be just another tiny town somewhere to the west of middle America, but it's the setting for an unexpected and bloody accident involving a runaway blimp that becomes so notorious that a Hollywood production company simply has to make a movie about it. How will the Bargussians respond to their sudden celebrity status? And what happens when it all goes horribly wrong?
A wildly funny and just-the-right-side-of-bizarre debut novel that manages to forge a captivating balance between the warmly affectionate and the flat-out dark, sure to surprise, shock and entertain.