Busy Monsters

From one of the most wildly inventive and weirdly funny young writers in America, comes a remarkable debut novel that chronicles Mr. Charles Homar on his riotous, Don Quixote-like quest to win back a lost fiancé. Hugely hailed and penned in the great non-traditional tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, with the bumbling antics of Joseph Heller - though now carried on by bestsellers like Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore - Busy Monsters has combined slapstick romance with modern myth, and pop culture with the completely bazaar. This action-packed comic tale follows the exploits of a weekly magazine columnist turned memoirist, who is mercilessly plagued by manly desire and the need for a good story. We first meet Charlie Homar as man so infatuated with his goddess-of-fiancée, Gillian that he conspires to kill her stalker, ex-boyfriend and Virginia state trooper, Marvin Gluck. But, when Gillian seemingly leaves Charlie for another man, his world violently explodes into an apocalyptic shock that propels our hero, with an aching soul, on an outrageous and tireless quest to win back the only woman he has ever truly loved. Advised by well-meaning but ultimately detrimental pals, Charlie finds himself, amongst other unforgettable sojourns, hunting a Sasquatch in the wilderness of Washington State and searching for UFOs with an ex-girlfriend and her vertically challenged lover. What emerges from the smoldering cauldron of our protagonist's heart is a heroic quest that can soar to the comic heights of Salinger or Burgess, while berating us with the painful realism of the human condition.