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The Weekend Warrior - Couverture souple

Robinson, Linton

 
9780984800308: The Weekend Warrior
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0984800301 ISBN 13 : 9780984800308
Editeur : Adoro Books, 2011

Synopsis

Weekends are hell. If you do them right. That's the subtext of the columns scrawled by Wiley from various states of semi-consciousness as he slinks out of the woodwork and insinuates himself into the soft underbelly of Southern California consciousness. Wilier than a coyote, badder than Santa, Gonzo'er than Dr. Duke, the Wilester lays waste to everybody in range, not least himself. There are two tributaries to the flow of "The Way of the Weekend Warrior": a normal (more of less) plot of a demented outsider snarfing up the media scene, and the content of the columns he writes and broadcasts as his weapon against normality and status quo. Taken from the syndicated cult column of the nineties, these passages snidely sneer, raucously rant, surrealistically swoop, and otherwise amaze and amuse. If you can get get through a chapter without laughing out loud, you get your money back. Well, not really, but you at least have our sympathy and scorn. Wiley is not for the meek and weak... he is THE WEEKEND WARRIOR. Read him if you dare.

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À propos de l'auteur

Linton Robinson was a free-lance writer for many decades, working for top national magazines and winning awards for articles in urban weeklies in the American West, ranging from Seattle's Weekly, Stranger, Rocket, and Sun to San Diego's Weekly, Revolt, and City Beat. Those years took their toll. One of his more successful (or at least cult- idolized) columns was “The Weekend Warrior”, started up at the Weekender in San Diego and eventually synicated as far north as Vancouver and as far west as Denver. In keeping with his new career as a novelist, Robinson has turned many humor columnists green with envy by figuring out how to convert The Warrior into a work of allegedly real fiction. If you didn't like “The Weekend Warrior”, well, to hell with you. What do you know, anyway, philistine? If you did like it, however, you're very fortunate. And not just for being wise, perceptive, and able to read between the lines—there are more works available from this unquestionably talented, questionably domesticated writer.

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Éditeur
Adoro Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0984800301
ISBN 13 
9780984800308
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
298
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