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Eighteen-year-old Edgar Donahoe lets off steam by drinking beer and popping hallucinogens with his best friend and boon companion Pat Fillmore. Big, brawling Pat shares Edgar's fondness for drink, drugs and trouble. And trouble is what they get one fateful night when they persuade gentle Beverley, a nurse at the old people's home, to try LSD for the first time... Set in 1970's California, God Clobbers Us All is a wickedly funny coming-of-age story about a young dreamer who loses himself in big waves and escapades. At the same time it is a thoughtful meditation on the different ways in which people live and die; a book that asks why some lives are full of grand gestures while others are hardly lived at all.
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'Calmer than Bukowski, less portentous than Kerouac, more hopeful than West' SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE--' Poe Ballantine reminds us that in a country full of identical strip malls and chain restaurants there's still room for adventure. He finds the humour in situations most would find unbearable and flourishes like a modern-day Kerouac... A book to cherish and pass on to friends' MARK POIRIER AUTHOR OF GOATS --*
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A novel so savory four writers have returned from the grave to give their praise.
MARK TWAIN: God Clobbers Us All, by gum, I couldn't have said it better myself. He might've added, however, that this is only the beginning of our troubles. I almost split my tombstone laughing. This man Poe Ballantine can write the stockings off a schoolmarm.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI: What do I think about Poe Ballantine? I try to not to think about Poe Ballantine. I'm not much for blurbs either. I put them right up there with creative writing workshops. Hell of a good looking cover, though. Now hand me that can of Schlitz and let me get back to work. All this talk about my death has got me in a funk.
RAYMOND CHANDLER: I understand Mr. Ballantine came to the Whaling Bar looking for me the other evening. I'm so pleased to see a man who can handle his similes. I imagine I'll meet him soon enough. You know, I never liked La Jolla society much either, although the oysters at the La Valencia were always very good.
NATHANAEL WEST: Bless my soul, if I had not been clobbered myself coming back from that funeral in El Centro with my new bride, I think I would've gotten around to a novel of similarly hilarious and desperate proportions. Alas, I was not much of a driver, and the Grand Old Man in the Tuxedo Above said to me: four novels is all you get. Bon voyage, Poe Ballantine, and the very best of luck to you.
A novel so savory four writers have returned from the grave to give their praise.
MARK TWAIN: God Clobbers Us All, by gum, I couldn't have said it better myself. He might've added, however, that this is only the beginning of our troubles. I almost split my tombstone laughing. This man Poe Ballantine can write the stockings off a schoolmarm.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI: What do I think about Poe Ballantine? I try to not to think about Poe Ballantine. I'm not much for blurbs either. I put them right up there with creative writing workshops. Hell of a good looking cover, though. Now hand me that can of Schlitz and let me get back to work. All this talk about my death has got me in a funk.
RAYMOND CHANDLER: I understand Mr. Ballantine came to the Whaling Bar looking for me the other evening. I'm so pleased to see a man who can handle his similes. I imagine I'll meet him soon enough. You know, I never liked La Jolla society much either, although the oysters at the La Valencia were always very good.
NATHANAEL WEST: Bless my soul, if I had not been clobbered myself coming back from that funeral in El Centro with my new bride, I think I would've gotten around to a novel of similarly hilarious and desperate proportions. Alas, I was not much of a driver, and the Grand Old Man in the Tuxedo Above said to me: four novels is all you get. Bon voyage, Poe Ballantine, and the very best of luck to you.
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- PublisherOld Street Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1905847688
- ISBN 13 9781905847686
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages259
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