Busy monsters: a novel

✍ Scribed by William Giraldi

• Book ID: 100366606
• Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0393082148

✦ Synopsis

Memoirist of mediocre fame, Charles Homar has a problem: his bride-to-be, Gillian Lee, has nixed their nuptials and fled to the high seas in search of a legendary giant squid, unleashing an unholy heart wreck upon him. In a hell-bent effort to prove his mettle as an American male and win back Gillian's affections, Charlie crisscrosses the nation seeking counsel, confronting creatures both mythic and real—Bigfoot on the Canadian border, space aliens in Seattle, a professional bodybuilder with Asiatic sex slaves in suburban New Jersey, the demons dancing a rumba inside his own heart—and then writing about his travails every week for a popular slick magazine. Echoing a narrative tradition that includesDon Quixoteand Kurt Vonnegut'sBreakfast of Champions, William Giraldi's debut novel is a love story of linguistic bravado that explores American excess, the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, and what desperate men and women will do to one another.

✦ Subjects

Literary Fiction