Sock A Novel [Paperback]

Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs, occasionally stops to tell a side story, and references a treasure trove of 1970's and 1980's pop culture.

Sockis a surprising, intense, fascinating piece of work.

Penn Jillettehas been the larger, louder half of the performing team Penn & Teller since 1975. Penn's articles has appeared inThe New York Times,Playboyand other publications.Sockis his first novel. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Penn has written a strange, sometimes still, sometimes thunderous novel that is unlike anything I've ever read...Reading Penn's novel was joyfully exhausting, which is how we should feel when we've been in the presence of such seriously good writing.
- Kaye Gibbons, author ofEllen FosterandDivining Women

[Jillette] writes the way he talks, in a sort of blizzard of smart-alecky, philosophical wit, but adds a pop-song allusion to nearly every paragraph; perhaps the only thing like his style is Stephen King streaming the consciousness of one of his crazed, possessed lowlifes...Sockis socko! Booklist