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Nine Kinds of Nakedby Tony Vigorito
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Do you believe in the butterfly effect? Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Tibet? What if the butterfly happens to be flapping centuries before the tornado stirs? Does the Great White Spot--a twenty-first-century weather anomaly rotating clockwise off the coast of Louisiana--stem from a ninth-century serf untying a knot in a strap of enchanted leather? In the tradition of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, and with all the playfulness and prose-poetics that made his Just a Couple of Days such an underground phenomenon, Tony Vigorito now turns his visionary gaze to the wonder of synchronicity and the mystery of cause and effect. He takes us on a wild ride through time and space, introducing us to a cast of fascinating characters whose lives are all affected by one breath of wind. A novel of philosophy, social movements, dancing, and just plain joy, Nine Kinds of Naked kicks up its heels and whispers the divine secrets of our interconnection. Review:"Fans of Vigorito's originally self-published 2007 cult hit Just a Couple of Days will have a ball with this hyperactive, zany novel. Twenty-year-old drifter Diablo spies on Bridget Snapdragon, the pagan wife of a Normal, Ill., actuary, skinny dipping in her backyard creek. He is soon arrested, and while in jail, flips a playing card onto the back of a bee, setting in motion an atmospheric disturbance that begets the storm of the century. Meanwhile, a select group of misfits are unknowingly thrown into the storm's path. There's J.J. Speed, a priest turned special agent after becoming 'insane from celibacy'; Elizabeth Wildhack, Bridget's stripper daughter; Billy Pronto, a man who speaks in terms of the here and now only; and Clovis, a ninth-century serf, who, with the aid of gnomes, time-travels to Normal. Vigorito has no trouble stringing together words and writes goofball fiction as well as anyone, but the book's time shifts, innumerable eccentricities, chaotic narrative and 400 pages are enough to wear a reader out." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:PRAISE FOR JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS "Just a Couple of Days is a lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!"Christopher Moore, author of Lamb and A Dirty Job Review:Vigorito writes in adjective-rich prose...[the] style makes for a lyrical adventure that complements the surreal plot. Review:"Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason--his stuff is fun to read. Its hallucinogenic. Its innocent, whimsical, sometimes silly even, but filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation." Review:"Nine Kinds of Naked is a philosophical examination of the Butterfly Effect and the proposition that love is indestructible. Its a tale of consequence, causation, and the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. Its like scuffling with a naked and unreasonably cheerful version of yourself in a time not of your own choosing. Its safe to say that no one corrupts the space-time continuum like Tony Vigorito." Review:"Nine Kinds of Naked offers ten distinct varieties of literary satisfaction, including metaphysical highjinks, libidinous lowjinks, hermeneutic mind games, Gordian plot twists, cognitive estrangement, linguistic surrealism, stylistic pyrotechnics, laugh-out-loud jokes, scrappy extrapolations, and the synergistic sum of the above. Acquire and read this demented epic before God has a chance to do so, for he is certain to condemn its polymorphous pleasures as sinful." Review:Nine Kinds of Naked will remind many readers of such mischiefmakers as Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert Anton Wilson. Review:"Comparisons of this novel to the works of Tom Robbins are both obvious and appropriate: the story meanders around in an entertaining manner, never getting too serious about itself; the characters are splendidly loopy, close to caricature but never quite reaching it, and the situations in which they find themselves are comic, dramatic, and everything in between." Review:Part quirky love story, part philosophical manifesto, and part metaphysical mystery, Nine Kinds of Naked is almost more musical dance than written word. Tony Vigorito's book on life, and those things outside the boundaries of the traditional plane, is right at home with the works of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore...a quizzical and psychedelic look at the nature of the Butterfly Eff ect." Review:[F]illed with style and sarcasm. Incredibly, this is one of the few novels one could pick up at any arbitrary page and enjoy....Nine Kinds of Naked is an imaginative, amusing dive into the (literal) eye of a storm and is a fresh take on the "six degrees" theory. Synopsis:Do you believe in synchronicity? Can one breath of wind change many lives across space and time? 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 Orleanswhere 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"? About the AuthorTONY VIGORITOs first novel, Just a Couple of Days, is a cult classic that was republished by Harcourt in 2007. A former professor who earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University and taught social theory at Ohio University and Antioch College, he now lives in Austin, Texas. Visit www.TonyVigorito.com. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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