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Author of the internationally acclaimed Lord of the Barnyard, Tristan Egolf has established himself as one of the most audacious and inventive young writers in America.
Grove Press
April 2004
On Sale: April 1, 2004
208 pages
ISBN: 0802140424
EAN: 9780802140425
Paperback
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With Skirt and the Fiddle, Egolf has given us a novel that
is equal parts headlong plunge into the joys and absurdity
of infatuation and a love song to the maddening folly of
friendship. Charlie Evans is a brilliant violinist who,
embittered by a truly horrendous gig, has kissed the fiddle
and the entire straight world good-bye. He lives in a
flophouse among misfits like Armless Rob, Emmylou
Mattressback, and Tinsel Greetz, an ersatz anarchist and
200-proof charlatan. Mutually antagonistic and joined at the
shot glass, Tinsel and Charlie nevertheless make a great
team, and when they get a highly illegal, extremely
lucrative gig killing rats in the sewers, they are a deadly,
unstoppable force. The morning after dissipating their
hard-earned money, the boys wake up in a strange
(five-star!) hotel room with the worst hangovers of their
lives. And when Charlie meets the bewitching Louise, who's
offered them shelter — well, then he's in trouble of a whole
new sort.
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