Barguss may be just another tiny town somewhere to the west of middle America, but it's also the setting for an unexpected and bloody accident involving a runaway blimp that becomes so notorious that a Hollywood production company simply has to make a movie about it. How will the Bargussians respond to their sudden celebrity status? And what happens when it all goes horribly wrong?
'Roo Kickkick & the Big Bad Blimp' is by turns wildly funny and warmly affectionate. Peopled by characters such as Raoul de los Dios, Monroe Mister Promised To, Doctor Dinner and Florence Mink, not to mention our hero Roo Kickkick, this book is an utterly brilliant and unpredictable story of the boredom and comedy of small-town life, and the bizarre effect of its unexpected encounter with sudden fame.
Ryan is an exceptionally talented writer and this astoundingly original novel reveals his ability to blend the comic and the poignantly tragic to brilliant effect.
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Bubblegum snappy with a nasty artificial sweetener aftertaste ... kinda quirky, kinda silly,
kinda cool
Truly, the book doesn’t deal in my real-life gore; it’s fiction (sorta). In fact, very little of it deals with violence, although there are violent incidents that shape the lives of the twin brother narrators. Speaking of brothers, my brother, Brandon, did all the illustrations for the book at my squealing behest. That's right, it has cool pictures! The novel is funny as well (or so I’m told) and also sad, in parts. I suppose it’s a dark-spotted comedy, really. In many ways, the fictional town of Barguss is not all that different from a certain section of my own hometown. More importantly, it’s got an incident with a blimp, a neighborhood restaurant called The Taco Coleslaw Hamburger Hot Dog Apple, a pseudo-famous electric/acoustic band named Autistik/Artistik, a Hollywood film crew re-enacting said blimp incident, and an on-stage prank pulled on ‘The King of Las Vegas’ Mr Wayne Newton, that shamelessly employs a comatose boy once-thought dead from an overdose. It has all that, and a tenacious villain known only as ‘The Scarlet Pimp, Arnell’. Oh yeah, and my editor says I'm supposed to tell you that it has heart, a big, BIG heart, and some kissing. Bon appétit!
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