Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater).
The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.
Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.
Synopsis
A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. A patient walks into an optometrist's office. But what's the punchline? Maybe this patient has really bad eyesight. Maybe what's on the Snellen eye chart is really about the Chalazian Mafia Faction pulling out eyeballs, a karaoke bar with epigraphs instead of songs, a waiter who can repeatedly return from the dead, and a Gaby who loves her father as much as he loves her.
In fact, they love each other so much that they would rather get sloshed on gravy and blabber about orgies than get down to what really needs to be said: Gaby's father is dying. But instead of telling his daughter the truth, he spends the short time they have left recounting allegories about other dying fathers and their beloved daughters. And Gaby knows they won't be together forever, but she'll rather press a plastic knife against someone's throat than admit she will lose her precious father.
This hysterical eye examination is also a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and - your eyes don't deceive - the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.
Synopsis
A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol.
An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater).
The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.
Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.