The Amish Spaceman - Couverture souple

Colegrove, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1495405389 ISBN 13 : 9781495405389

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A comical road trip across the U.S. with a cast of surreal characters including a failed motivational speaker, a Kamchatkan runaway bride, a sock-crazed mafia boss, and cross-dressing parents.Unsatisfied with the daily grind of a Silicon Valley “business coach and life consultant,” Dean Cook weasels his way into a once-in-a-lifetime chance for fame and fortune: a speaking slot at the National Motivational Speaker’s Conference in West Virginia. Three days before the conference, Dean’s girlfriend breaks up with him and destroys his passport and identification cards. Dean’s flight plans are now scrapped, and he’s forced to steal a second hand ambulance. On the high-speed drive across the country he meets a Russian girl on the run from her fiancé, a brutal and eccentric collector of women’s hosiery. Dean and the girl escape from a series of catastrophes including a shotgun wedding in Reno, Sea MonkeysTM in the Great Salt Lake, and parachuting from a B-25 bomber over Kentucky.Scrambling to catch up to Dean are his gender-bending parents, who see this as the last chance to throw their son a party that doesn’t end in complete disaster. Because, after all, it’s Dean’s birthday.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The author has been described as a boneheaded moron with less neural matter between his ears than a malnourished ocelot. This might have hampered the literary careers of manlier men with manlier names like Chuck Sambuchino, Pahlahniuk, or even Chuck Dickens, but the high quality of his boneheaded behavior helps the author write about clueless people in dangerous situations. He simply transcribes last Thursday and what happens when you chase a raccoon with a wushu spear, or wrestle a cat. The author grew up on a farm in southern Ohio, which is a bit like growing up on a farm in southern anywhere. Instead of jumping cars over deer or stalking creeks through the woods, he read books and watched Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf. This doomed the author to follow the path of Creative Writing at University. Afterwards, he taught English in China and Germany, received a Master’s of Teaching English to Foreigners, and moved to California where he was told only qualified applicants with proper qualifications were allowed to qualify for a position as a qualified firefighter. Now, armed with as much common sense as an unexploded bomb under a cabbage field in Lower Saxony, he drives a 911 ambulance in California and holds on to the vain hope that someday he will be replaced by a robot. Hobbies: Listening to the beach Walking on Phil Collins Favorite Books: I’m Alan Partridge Star Trek #23 - Ishmael (Spock goes back in time to the Gold Rush and you’ve stopped reading this already) Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed Best Movie I Have Been Allowed to Stay Up and Watch: Jessie Season Two Favorite Documentary: Dumb & Dumber What I’m Doing Now: Nothing what are you doing

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1495405389
• ISBN 13: 9781495405389
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 315
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg