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Grave Digger Blues

3/5 ( ratings)

Jesse Sublett's writing has been compared to James Ellroy, Michael Connelly and Denis Johnson. "Grave Digger Blues" is a blast of surreal, post-apocalyptic noir, set during the last weeks of the world. Dual protagonists drive the narrative--The Blues Cat, an itinerant, doomed jazz musician, and Hank Zzybnx, a private detective haunted by the benevolent ghost of Marilyn Monroe, fragmented memories of the war in Murderstan, and a grifter mother who hated him before he was born. Grizzly bears and alligators have invaded the cities, walking catfish prowl the exurbs, and the best bar in town is the Morgue, so-named because its previous incarnation was the cold storage of the dead; now its industrial sized refrigerator serves an even more noble purpose: sweet relief for the last survivors of the rotting Republic. After the Republican coup, when the wacked out right wingers blew up the White House, the federal government was replaced by a corporate board of directors, but some of the plotters have fallen on hard times. Dick Cheney is a drag queen... Newt Gingrich is a security guard at WalMart who moonlights with a circus strangling puppies, but the big attraction at the side show is a Reagan-faced monkey who quotes lines from Reagan's most famous speeches. Thus the chapter titled "Morning in America." The iPad version of the book has over 100 great, intriguing and sexy photos and drawings, plus music and audio versions of several chapters. The Kindle edition has the photos, but of course, no music or video.

Language: English

Pages: 198

Format: ebook

Publisher: Jesse Sublett

Release: November 16, 2012

ISBN 13: ISBN:97809851

Grave Digger Blues

3/5 ( ratings)

Jesse Sublett's writing has been compared to James Ellroy, Michael Connelly and Denis Johnson. "Grave Digger Blues" is a blast of surreal, post-apocalyptic noir, set during the last weeks of the world. Dual protagonists drive the narrative--The Blues Cat, an itinerant, doomed jazz musician, and Hank Zzybnx, a private detective haunted by the benevolent ghost of Marilyn Monroe, fragmented memories of the war in Murderstan, and a grifter mother who hated him before he was born. Grizzly bears and alligators have invaded the cities, walking catfish prowl the exurbs, and the best bar in town is the Morgue, so-named because its previous incarnation was the cold storage of the dead; now its industrial sized refrigerator serves an even more noble purpose: sweet relief for the last survivors of the rotting Republic. After the Republican coup, when the wacked out right wingers blew up the White House, the federal government was replaced by a corporate board of directors, but some of the plotters have fallen on hard times. Dick Cheney is a drag queen... Newt Gingrich is a security guard at WalMart who moonlights with a circus strangling puppies, but the big attraction at the side show is a Reagan-faced monkey who quotes lines from Reagan's most famous speeches. Thus the chapter titled "Morning in America." The iPad version of the book has over 100 great, intriguing and sexy photos and drawings, plus music and audio versions of several chapters. The Kindle edition has the photos, but of course, no music or video.

Language: English

Pages: 198

Format: ebook

Publisher: Jesse Sublett

Release: November 16, 2012

ISBN 13: ISBN:97809851

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