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Sommelier of Deformity
Nick Yetto
Turner
August 2018
On Sale: July 24, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 1684421446
EAN: 9781684421442
Kindle: B07DKJ45VS
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"I'm a connoisseur of the unwanted; a sommelier of
deformity; a coveter of the unloved. I am forever chased by
the shadow of my ugliness. In darkness, no shadow remains,
and it's all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be Don
Juan trapped in Quasimodo's body. He lives with his mother
and ailing grandfather in a decaying, post-industrial city.
The mother is Emily Post with a color changing and a
mood-indicating scar. The grandfather is a one-eyed double
amputee, who spends his days happily dangling in a hydraulic
patient lift. Their life is a working-class hallucination of
blueblood extravagance. They luxuriate over gourmet meals
and perform dramatic readings. At night, Buddy slips away
for covert liaisons with women he meets on the internet.
Buddy is at war with his neighbor over a stolen book. There
are frequent outrageous acts of casual sex. There's a love
interest, a librarian, who tempts Buddy with desires for the
"normal" kind of love he knows he cannot have. So it goes,
until a new nurse arrives to care for Buddy’s grandfather.
Enter Terrance: a tall, impossibly handsome black man, a
lapsed Broadway performer, virtuoso singer, and banjo
player. Buddy and Terrance strike up an unlikely friendship
that drives Yetto's surreal, tawdry, and poignant debut novel.
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