Carp Fishing on Valium: And Other Tales of the Stranger Road Traveled - Couverture souple

Parker, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312280734 ISBN 13 : 9780312280734

Editeur : Griffin, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Parker Graham

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Garden gnomes mysteriously vanish from suburban lawns... a momentous force enters a 13-year-old boy from the third rail of a train line and gives him powers that he uses to harass a local fishwife... Mick Jagger is killed when a bus runs over him and the most unlikely of prospects is interviewed for his replacement. These are just a few of the predicaments in this eccentric collection of tales, placed in the “desolate southern suburbs” of England as well as Morocco, New York, and Cleveland, all featuring the Zelig-like protagonist Brian Porker. First published by St Martin’s Press in 2000, this new edition of Carp Fishing on Valium by rocker Graham Parker now includes “Kernley Days,” an interconnected trilogy of previously unpublished stories. “a splendid literary debut.... Gruesome and laconic in the tradition of Roald Dahl, Parker’s shorts are equal parts wit, invention and sweet cruelty.” -- Publishers Weekly “A book you should read... a rollicking chronicle of one man’s journey from struggling musician to irascible rock’ n’ roll star...” ­ — Esquire

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CARP FISHING ON VALIUM is the story of Brian Porker, an aging, dyspeptic rock star, told in a kaleidoscopic series of episodes from throughout Brian's life: as a curious, nature-loving Surrey lad obsessed with egg collecting; a teenaged Mod on a Lambretta whose sharp looks are ruffled by gang skirmishes in a Woking ska club; your typical working-class bloke enduring distasteful odd jobs trying to make it as a musician; a high-living rock singer interviewed by Keith Richards as the replacement for the 'newly deceased' Mick Jagger; a world-weary, midlife rocker who can't turn down a piece of hash or coke - long after it's 'fashionable'; and in his final guise as an ornithologist-comedian (yes, you read that right). Witty, insightful, absurd and improbably touching, CARP FISHING ON VALIUM has established Graham Parker on the literary scene in the same wickedly incisive way he turned rock on its ear.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312280734
• ISBN 13: 9780312280734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 227