Nine Kinds of Naked

✍ Scribed by Tony Vigorito

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Harcourt/Harvest, Melia [distributor]
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0547542836

✦ Synopsis

"Part quirky love story, part philosophical manifesto, and part metaphysical mystery . . . right at home with the works of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore" (Sacramento Book Review).

A prisoner spins a playing card into a somersault, stirring a whirlwind that becomes a tornado that takes the roof off a church in nearby Normal, Illinois. Elizabeth Wildhack is born in that church and someday she will meet that prisoner, a man named Diablo, on the streets of New Orleans—where a hurricane-like Great White Spot hovers off the coast. But how is it all interconnected? And what does it have to do with a time-traveling serf and a secret society whose motto is "Walk away"?

This surreal novel exploring chaos theory comes from the acclaimed author of the cult favorites Just a Couple of Days and Love and Other Pranks.

"As fanciful and inventive in its form . . . as it is in its observations. It fed tasty crackers to...