Description
Product ID: | 9780316560504 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit |
Authors: | Author: Mark Leyner |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating If Lily King's Euphoria and Norman Mailer's Mating dropped acid together, the resulting trip would be this novel about an anthropologist in a fictional land and his intense and devout relationships with his daughter and with alcohol An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children''s Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk''s #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it''s Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters. |
Imprint Name: | Little, Brown & Company |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown & Company |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-02-18 |