The driftless zone, or, A novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities / by Rick Harsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harsch, Rick, 1959-

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Driftless zone

Novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities

Place of Publication:

South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, [1997]

Summary:

Spleen, the novel's hero (a man about as decisive as Hamlet), falls in love with The Sneering Brunette and is pulled into an intrigue that involves a psychotic hit man who eats live pigeons, a snitch named The Fag With No Eyebrows, a reformed snitch named Billy Verite, and two crooked policemen, Stratton and his partner, the black undercover cop in the white city. The plot that unfolds is a dance with the absurd, its wisdom coming from B-movie actors and philosophical taxi drivers, all written with a love and affection for a people and a side of town that are hopelessly without either.

ISBN:

1883642329

OCLC:

36548837