Percy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515088394)

Vendor: Steve Dodds
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Percy

$15.00

Percy

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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'Percy' is, as the name suggests, the tale of Percy. Loosely based on the legend of Parsifal, but transplanted to the American Mid-West and combining mythic heroes with bikies, highly addictive drugs, cosplay, burqas, chess, the joys of sliding in Bryant Park, synchronicity, mutants, omniscience and of course imaginary bears, 'Percy' is at heart a simple tale of love, gods and fur. Featuring picaresque adventures, philosophical ruminations, and far more discussion about the ins and outs of hair than is generally considered healthy, it is a fiercely intelligent linguistic smorgasbord that works both as love affair with the written word and as a jolly good yarn. Here's what one slightly-demented (but pretty accurate) reviewer had to say: "If Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, Terry Pratchett and Nick Harkaway had an orgy, and that orgy produced a love-child, and that love-child was actually a book, this would be that book."

Author: Steve Dodds
ISBN-10: 1515088391
ISBN-13: 9781515088394
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2015
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.75d
By Steve Dodds
By Steve Dodds
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Steve Dodds has been writing professionally for over 20 years, although the proper use of commas still confuses him. Following a moderate mid-life crisis, he moved to San Francisco for long enough to know one never calls it Frisco. Currently he can be found in Sydney, usually at the Cricketer's Arms Hotel in Surry Hills, and especially at Happy Hour, 5-7PM Mon to Fri. His favourite drink is beer, his favourite food is lobster, his favourite color is black, his favourite composer is Stravinsky, and his favourite books are sweeping sagas of three generations of Southern women. Architecturally he is a minimalist. He is currently working on a new book that is not about him but will contain elements of him. He is not very good at plots so he stole the plot and theme of 'Percy' from 'Parsival' by Wolfram von Eschenbach, figuring that Wolfie has been dead for 800 years and so probably won't notice. Coincidentally his child is also named Wolfie, but after a dead composer and not a dead poet.

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