Synopses & Reviews
Sergeant Chandler Dykes is obsessed with two misfits: Slim, a former cadet with a brutal neck scar, and his best friend, The Beast, a college basketball star with a proclivity for cooking. When Slim and The Beast take shelter from a hurricane in a country bar, they learn that Sgt. Dykes has been haunting the place, raving about opossums, bathtub whiskey, and his estranged cadet, Slim.
As the bartender swaps tales with Slim and The Beast in hopes of understanding Dykes' obsession, the two young men are forced to confront their own troubled pasts. With dexterous prose and unflinching humor, wrapped in the rich dialect of the South, the conversations at Lockart's traverse art, love, sex, and philosophy, warily observing the savage storm and the ghosts it seems to be dredging up. A remarkable first novel that recalls the liveliness of Wells Tower and packs the punch of Denis Johnson, Slim and The Beast lays out what's at stake in a friendship, recalling the decisions we make on the edge of adulthood that define the person we become.
Review
Select Author Events: New York, North Carolina, Paris. Advance Reading Copies. Digital Marketing: Email Campaign; Targeted Outreach to Top Literary, Men's and Basketball Sites."A milestone in American publishing history. Inkshares and Samuél L. Barrantes offer us a glimpse of what the future of letters may be."
—Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and The Cat's Pajamas
"Samuél L. Barrantes has delivered a hugely promising debut novel. Do yourself a favor and read it."
—Nic Brown, author of In Every Way
Synopsis
Based in the foothills of North Carolina, Slim and The Beast introduces you to a disillusioned war veteran with a brutal neck scar, a college basketball star with a proclivity for cooking, and a nihilistic stalker obsessed with self-pity, shirtless teenage boys and Johnny Walker in the bathtub. It is a story about seeking purpose and the importance of brotherhood; about the upbringings that shape us, the choices that define us, and how the shadows of our past obscure the person we might become.
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Synopsis
The lively tale of two best friends who take refuge in a country bar to flee a stalker and a hurricane. Slim and The Beast is David Foster Wallace meets Coen Brothers meets Larry David.
About the Author
John Knight is a writer and editor living in New York.Aaron Lopez-Barrantes is an illustrator and a full-time musician living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has a passion for line-drawing and illustration, and is inspired by artists from Gary Larson to Roy Lichtenstein. He studied illustration at the University of Vermont where he received a bachelors degree in fine art.