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Whispering Bodies: A Roy Belkin Disaster
Contributor(s): Michaels, Jesse (Author)

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ISBN: 1593765304     ISBN-13: 9781593765309
Publisher: Soft Skull
OUR PRICE: $16.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth
- Fiction | Humorous - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013014413
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.50 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Locality - San Francisco, California
- Cultural Region - Northern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2013
Foreword 08/31/2013
 
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Publisher Description:
A San Francisco shut-in is forced to leave his apartment to investigate the murder of his maintenance man in this offbeat mystery that, at its heart, is an in-depth character study (Foreword Reviews).

At forty-seven, balding, and mildly agoraphobic, Internet troll Roy Belkin is a man without direction. He rarely leaves his apartment (he refers to the outside world as The Pounding), and when he must leave, he meticulously recounts the day in his Thunder Book; a journal where he lists all that repulsed him that day.

But everything changes the day Belkin returns to his apartment to find the building ablaze along with the suspected murder of the apartment building's maintenance man. As police question him, Belkin meets the mysterious Pernice Balfour, the alluring, religiously obsessed neighbor accused of the crime. Soon, Belkin has no choice but to come out of his shell (and his apartment) to try to clear her name. But the more Belkin investigates, the muddier things become. Wandering through San Francisco's seedy Tenderloin district, Belkin begins to unravel the truth behind the murder, and encounters a bizarre series of characters and situations: "pansexual" crime-scene photographer, an idiot detective, and an all-knowing government operative.

"Whispering Bodies perfectly tangles comedy and pathos. I've talked to a few heads who have compared it to A Confederacy of Dunces, and that makes sense." --The Rumpus

"Jesse Michaels' debut novel is a unique and side-splitting performance, punctuated by a whip smart narrative and magnetic prose. A dizzying combination of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Kurt Vonnegut, if he were a hostile agoraphobic." --Alex Green, Caught in the Carousel

 
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