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Nine Kinds of Naked [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Fiction)
  • Author:  Vigorito, Tony
  • Author:  Vigorito, Tony
  • ISBN-10:  015603123X
  • ISBN-10:  015603123X
  • ISBN-13:  9780156031233
  • ISBN-13:  9780156031233
  • Publisher:  Mariner Books
  • Publisher:  Mariner Books
  • Pages:  416
  • Pages:  416
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2008
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2008
  • SKU:  015603123X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  015603123X-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 102460525
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Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his acclaimed, surreal whirlwind of a novel exploring chaos theory. A prisoner spins a playing card into a somersault, stirring a wind that becomes a tornado that takes off the roof of a church in nearby Normal, Illinois. Elizabeth Wildhack is born in that church and someday she will meet that prisoner, a man named Diablo, on the streets of New Orleans--where a hurricane-like Great White Spot hovers off the coast. But how is it all interconnected? And what does it have to do with a time-traveling serf and a secret society whose motto is "Walk away?"

"Linguistic gymnastics abound... Vigorito demonstrates once again that he's a wild stylist... startlingly original... an entertaining anarchist..." --The Chicago Sun-Times

"A novel of ideas that also happens to be entertaining. And yes, fun. And like those maverick classics, Alice in Wonderland and GargantuaNine Kinds of Naked is as fanciful and inventive in its form, its structure, as it is in its observations." --Tom Robbins

"Linguistic gymnastics abound... Vigorito demonstrates once again that he's a wild stylist... startlingly original... an entertaining anarchist..." --The Chicago Sun-Times

PRAISE FORJUST A COUPLE OF DAYS

"Just a Couple of Daysis a lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!"—Christopher Moore, author ofLamb and A Dirty Job

 

Another whimsical tale of time, space, coincidence and cause and effect.  The author displays most of the linguistic acrobatics and playful rumination that made his debut a cult classic...In the tradition of Douglas Adams and Tom Robbins, much of the book is given over to philosophical musings about the connection among all things.
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