Puff - Softcover

Flaherty, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060751525 ISBN 13: 9780060751524

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 288 in Publisher: Harper Perennial Meet John Gullivan age thirteen. Obsessed with the in moles that dot most of his body. - Meet his other Gully who can not stop laughing Creative at them Now meet the others ten years later. in the middle of the most ferocious blizzard anyone can remember. Set in an Irish working-class suburb of Boston in the 1960s and 1970s. Puff centers on a quest as the soon-to-be-orphaned others. posing as rescue personnel. attempt to steer their dilapidated van through insurmountable snow. all to score a bag of pot. Trapped in their own ruse and forced to act the part of the saviors they are pretending to be. the others run into an endless stream of foes and obstacles: the cops. their childhood priest. a knife-wielding maniac. and the ill all stand in the way of their elusive high. A raucous caper. Puff is as hilarious a...

About this title

Review:

"Bob Flaherty's smokin' debut." -- Washington Post

"flat-out hilarious" -- Detroit Free Press

"Flaherty has managed to craft a richly textured story with a wonderfully eccentric and wholly unforgettable family at its center"--Jonathan Tropper, author of The Book of Joe and Everything Changes

"Flaherty manages to craft a unique story that's heartfelt in the most unexpected places"--Entertainment Weekly

"Bob Flaherty's smokin' debut."--Washington Post

"Unforgettable as the adventures of Butch and Sundance, and more dizzying than a lift from Thelma and Louise."--Steven Sorrentino, author of Luncheonette

"A funny, well-crafted debut tale of sin, redemption, religious yearning...true and amusing and serious all at once."--Kirkus Reviews

"Flaherty's loving rendition of Boston's suburbia in the '60s and '70s...will charm the Slackers set."--Publishers Weekly

"flat-out hilarious"--Detroit Free Press

A funny, well-crafted debut tale of sin, redemption, religious yearning...true and amusing and serious all at once. --Kirkus Reviews"

About the Author:

Bob Flaherty was born and raised in Boston and its surrounding towns and now lives in Western Massacusetts with his wife Annemarie, with whom he operates a birthday party business. They have 3 sons. Bob has, at various times, been an actor, a director, a cartoonist, a sportscaster, a talk show host, a tour guide, a storyteller, a disabled bus driver, a master of ceremonies, a hanger of gutters, a singer of national anthems and a baseball coach.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060751525
• ISBN 13: 9780060751524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269