The Nirvana Blues: A Novel - Softcover

Nichols, John Treadwell; Nichols, John

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9780345410375: The Nirvana Blues: A Novel

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ISBN 10: 0345410378 ISBN 13: 9780345410375

Publisher: Ballantine Books (P), 1996

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The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together -- and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power-brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver -- faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy -- is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he embarks on a coke scam and ends up in erotic adventures with three headstrong women....

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Review:

"A work of genius . . . Hilarious."--"Newsday
"Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains."--"The Washington Post
"A work of genius . . . Hilarious."--"Newsday"
"Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains."--"The Washington Post "
" A work of genius . . . Hilarious." -- "Newsday"
" Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
" An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains." -- "The Washington Post "
"A work of genius . . . Hilarious."--"Newsday""Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review""An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains."--"The Washington Post"

“A work of genius . . . Hilarious.”—"Newsday"
“Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant.”—"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
“An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains.”—"The Washington Post "
"A work of genius . . . Hilarious."--"Newsday"

"Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains."--"The Washington Post "

A work of genius . . . Hilarious. "Newsday"

Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant. "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains. "The Washington Post""

"A work of genius . . . Hilarious." --Newsday

"Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains." --The Washington Post

From the Back Cover:

The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together -- and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver -- faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy -- is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene.

This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America -- truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were twenty years ago.

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