Orville And Erval Bend My LIfe: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492923022)

A middle-aged man, caught up in the doldrums of life, is awakened in mind, body, and spirit, thanks to the highjinks of a group of worm-like creatures who kidnap him and take him on the ride of his life. In Orville And Erval Bend My Life: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery, the protagonist is forced by his peculiar pack of captors to hear them out as they deliver their wacky stories, vignettes, and poetry. The kidnappers have a dark conviviality that is at once confusing, threatening, and entertaining. Why would they need a captive audience for their wit and witticisms? They offer no answers about that, and the mystery hovers throughout the protagonist's efforts to outwit his captors. Each of their creative offerings, according to the kidnappers, is "knee-slappingly funny"-a verbal cartoon - told by the worms for the edification of the hero. Underlying all of these strange tales is a puzzle that our hero must solve to gain his freedom - the answer is a hidden truth about life that serves as the social consciousness of this comic-fantasy fiction.

Author Richard Spring offers his observances, experiences, and takeaways to the reader in a palatable, lighthearted, and unrestricted manner that offers the reader an odd and amusing take on the existential truths of everyday life.