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Following in the tradition of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, James Protzman's Jesus Swept plays fast and loose with every known Southern archetype and stands magical realism on its head without missing a beat. Joining classic hippie-jester-heroes Ignatius C. Reilly and Horse Badorties is Gary Gray, part-time sidewalk sweeper and full-time savior. The unlikely story of hope lost, found, and lost again on the North Carolina coast, Jesus Swept celebrates a philosophy of life you can put on a bumper sticker: Do Good, Be Nice, Have Fun. Meet Hook, Sinker, Liz, Frank, Dog and Jesus himself, six souls twisted in a tangle of threads that will make you cry until you laugh-or until you try dying. "James Protzman is the George Carlin of the literary world, skewering with brilliant characterization and storyline the veil of religious mythology that threatens to suffocate our society. But Protzman also understands and respects our longing for answers in life. Jesus Swept embraces the mad chase in all its futility, humor, and hope." -John Manuel, The Canoeist "Chock-a-block with local color and cosmic lunacy, James Alexander Protzman's first novel is the opposite of a Chinese meal: the prose is lean and the style spare, but this tasty text continues to satisfy long after the last page is turned." -James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder, The Philosopher's Apprentice "Lean, mean, irreverent, and perverse only begin to describe this comic and outrageous satire on Southern archetypes. You could say, Harry Crews meets Christopher Moore in a head-butt! Redneck druggies, false prophet tweakers, a racist Marine, and an a university fund-raiser turned telepathic are spiritually entwined in their search for the concise meaning of life. Is it "Do good. Be nice, Have fun." "Do. Be. Have." "Do behave." or "Doobie have."? The answer will come to you through James Protzman's clever, fast-paced, and imaginative prose." -Vicki Hendricks, Florida Gothic Stories, Cruel Poetry, Iguana Love, Sky Blues Review from Library Journal- Debut novelist Protzman offers a refreshingly different tale about a man who calls himself Jesus and leads a group of men who have taken the apostles' names as they sweep parking lots and anything else they can throughout the South. Jesus, or "Gary Gray," was abandoned as a baby at a church, where he was adopted by a troubled couple. Gary's mother made brooms as a craft, and after she and her husband die in a trailer fire, Gary inherits the brooms. Fresh prose and an offbeat style make this an appealing tale, although it is not traditional CBA fiction. Jesus Swept includes some rough language that may offend more conservative readers, but it might appeal to more adventurous patrons who enjoyed last year's Saving Erasmus by Steven Cleaver.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780979270079
  • Publisher: Kitsune Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Kitsune Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 328 gr
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0979270073
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 328 gr
  • Width: 140 mm


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