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Skirt And The Fiddle

By: Tristan Egolf

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A giddying song from the sewers written with jet-propelled energy and 'a comic intensity reminiscent of Withnail and I' -- New York Times Book Review Charlie and Tinsel kill rats for a living. Their ugly job earns them a packet, but they blow it all on liquor. Charlie is a brilliant classical violinist, but he's decided to kiss the fiddle goodbye after a horrendous gig playing warm-up to the fascist thrash band, Volstagg. Now he's fetched up in Philth town where he lives in a grimy flophouse with his partner-in-crime, the anarchist Tinsel Greetz. Then Louise turns up on their doorstep. She's a beautiful filmmaker who doesn't seem to mind too much about the smell.Seizing their chance to escape Philth town once and for all, the boys go head to head for the Skirt's affections and Charlie realizes that it's high time he dusted down his violin...With Charlie and Tinsel, Skirt and the Fiddle introduces the most outrageously entertaining double-act since Laurel and Hardy.

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Atlantic Books Ltd

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ISBN 10

1782395644

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9781782395645

Kornwolf

A Novel

By: Tristan Egolf

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Kornwolf

A Novel

By: Tristan Egolf

Tristan Egolf's new novel is a book about the return of an old curse — the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Kornwolf takes the reader for a good old-fashioned romp in the stubble — a journey through the slums and honky tundra of rural Pennsylvania, where nothing quite passes for good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash. And then the monotony breaks. Something — a freak of creation — is running amok in the fields. To solve the mystery, three generations of prodigal sons — a writer and hometown boy who swore he'd never come back to Penn's Woods; a middle-aged former pugilist who runs a decrepit boxing gym; and a misfit, mute, beaten-down Amish boy — are brought together by the light of a blue moon, in a town called Blue Ball. On one level this is a masterfully orchestrated, hilarious, and compelling take on the classic horror yarn, on another, Kornwolf is a social satire of suburban sprawl, closed minds, and all manners and varieties of self-satisfaction — Amish, civilian, or... other — in the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555846319

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9781555846312

Lord of the Barnyard

Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt

By: Tristan Egolf

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Lord of the Barnyard

Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt

By: Tristan Egolf

A manic, inventive, and painfully funny debut novel, "Lord of the Barnyard" is about a town's dirty laundry--and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out." . . . A tornado of almost biblical proportion" ("Le Monde").

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442

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Grove Press

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0802136729

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9780802136725

Skirt and the Fiddle

By: Tristan Egolf

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Skirt and the Fiddle

By: Tristan Egolf

Tossing aside his musical career and heterosexuality after a discouraging gig, violinist Charlie, along with sodden anarchist Tinsel, raises money illegally by killing sewer rats, before falling for the bewitching Louise.

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Grove Press

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0802140424

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9780802140425

Kornwolf

A Novel

By: Tristan Egolf

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A Novel

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