Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken

Synopsis

The author with &“a humanity worthy of Dickens or Hardy&” delivers a novel of alternative currency and the price of wealth (Publishers Weekly). You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you&’ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. For most people, as they say, money makes the world go &‘round. For Rory Honeyman, it&’s a different story. Having inadvertently and, almost without noticing, invented a new form of cash cow, money makes Rory&’s world go strangely pear-shaped and out-of-control. He has an endless supply of blank checks that never bounce but he&’s being guided by an albino, hustled by a saline-snorting sandwich-obsessed gourmet, manipulated by a devious banker and befuddled and bemused by a never-ending assortment of attractive and baffling women. And, for reasons unknown and unknowable, after racing from the Great Plains to Mexico City to Canada to Europe, he&’s stuck in Hoboken and there appears to be no way out. Originally published: 2004

Copyright:

2003

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

308 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781497613218

Publisher:

Open Road Media

Date of Addition:

11/28/24

Copyrighted By:

Paul Di Filippo.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Humor

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.