The Roadkill Diaries: Strange Tales from Key West and Beyond - Couverture souple

Jabanoski, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439233365 ISBN 13 : 9781439233368

Editeur : Createspace Independent Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Almost endlessly hysterical, but occasionally deathly serious, this collection of the best of the first "Roadkill Weekly" columns, published on the Internet between September of 1995 and July of 1996, cemented Jabanoski’s reputation as one of the most, if not "the" most popular underground writer of his generation. It also laid the ground work for "Roadkill Weekly," to become one of the most popular Internet fiction columns in America, still thriving on the Net, now almost a decade after since the first of these columns were written.

While it can be argued that Jabanoski has only gotten better with time, these columns, especially for a lover of Key West and the wild "No, Dorothy. You’re not in Kansas anymore," lifestyle of that magical island, are "Roadkill Bill" at his wildest, most over-the-top humor, and I challenge anyone not to belly laugh a minimum of a hundred times while reading this book.

There’s a lot to laugh along with here, too. An oversize, 9" x 11" 352 page hard cover, with thirty plus stories included, it’s a long read. It’s also almost impossible to believe that someone could turn out work of this quality week after week every Saturday morning to his Internet subscribers.

If you’ve ever been to Key West and wished you could stay, you’ll love this book. If you’ve never been to Key West, but simply love to have fun and laugh, you’ll love this book. This is Key West from a true local’s point of view, with all the over-indulgence in alcohol and other substances, casual sex and craziness, that make that Southernmost Island so different from the rest of America. The only people I wouldn’t recommend it to are "Born Again" Christians or Islamic fanatics. You won’t like it at all.

- Jeff Winingham

A propos du livre

About the author

"Roadkill" Bill Jabanoski {an affectionate nickname he picked up from friends in Key West for how much traveling he did and what he looked like when he came back from every corner of the globe}, probably best known, these days, for his hit CDS, A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL - FOUR YEARS UNDER THE BOOT HEEL OF GEORGE W. BUSH and THE KEY WEST PARTY CD, is also the author of one of the most popular internet fiction columns in the world, ROADKILL WEEKLY, and known for the thousands of journalistic works he’s filed from everywhere from Southern Africa to the four months he spent reporting on the war in Iraq between March and June of last year. Although he was born and bred just outside of New York City, where he "cut his teeth" as a journalist as a crime reporter for one of the city’s dailies, he’s called Key West, Florida his home for over twenty years now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Pub
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439233365
• ISBN 13: 9781439233368
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible