by Jon Longhi
$13.95
164 pages
ISBN-10: 1933149175
ISBN-13: 9781933149172
Publisher: Manic D Press
The Rise and Fall of Third Leg fuses together tales of the luckless and the disgusted and lets you sort out who's better off in the end. From a group of unfortunate skinheads on their way to a wedding, to the hell of trendy neighbors, to the worst punk rock band that ever got tangled up in a microphone cord, Longhi lets his characters loose on the unsuspecting reader. Relentlessly hysterical, blatantly absurd, The Rise and Fall of Third Leg embraces the short fiction form with a consuming and wry craftiness. "Anyone who's an admirer of Richard Brautigan's unclassifiable Trout Fishing in America will be drawn to the eccentric, wandering vision of Longhi's prose." -San Francisco Bay Guardian. "There are echoes of Burroughs, Brautigan, and even Terry Southern here, but Longhi's strong distinctive voice and sure grip on the people and places he writes about have enabled him to stake out his own circle of hell. Highly recommended." -Waste Paper.
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