Pride Of The Bimbos

Pride of the Bimbos, with its outrageous plot and cast of outlandish characters, is both funny and profound. It is about a man who refuses to admit he's a freak: Pogo Burns, midget and former private eye. Pogo plays for the Brooklyn Bimbos, a cross-dressing circus sideshow softball team, and is pursued by an evil superpimp named Dred, whom he once shot in order to rescue the woman he loved.

The tale of Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality is narrated with wit and depth. This remarkable book marked the start of legendary filmmaker John Sayles's career as a novelist.

The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the team—and the novel—is a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved. The Pride of the Bimbos is about Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality, a man who refuses to admit he's a freak.

John Sayles is the screenwriter and director of Return of the Secaucus Seven; Baby, It's You; The Brother from Another Planet; Matewan and Passion Fish. Twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Sayles has also written two short story collections, Dillinger in Hollywood and Anarchists' Convention, and three novels, including Los Gusanos and Union Dues.