When a tanker truck explodes at the local gas station, it’s the first sign that all hell is about to break loose in Pine Cove. Unfortunately for the town’s newly minted blues fans, however, a colossal sea beast is also drawn to the sound of the slide guitar. Suddenly, business is booming at the Head of the Slug Saloon, where a melancholy blues man from the Mississippi Delta has settled in for the winter. It’s September in Pine Cove, California, where the tourists have finally decamped for the season, the sun is slanting through the trees, and the local psychiatrist has just decided to switch everyone from antidepressants to placebos without telling them. It’s ‘Godzilla’ meets ‘The Bridges of Madison County’, as only Christopher Moore could spin it. Now the maestro of the bizarre brings you his most incredible creation yet a love story starring a sea monster named Steve. Christopehr Moore has pioneered a parade of loopy, hilarious genres that have delighted readers world wide.
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Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during the war - part of the Miraculous Generation - and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. 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Accompanied once again by a dauntless film crew, Palin begins in the far, frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle, then passes through 17 countries, including Norway, the former USSR, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and Chile, before standing at last at the South Pole. First, he traveled Around the World in 80 Days while a BBC crew filmed his adventures in Pole to Pole, Palin once again straps on his old kit bag-this time to traverse the globe from north to south. Actor Michael Palin has managed to keep busy since his days with the British comedy group Monty Python. |