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Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer
Brian Sweany
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Leave It to Beaver
The Writer's Coffee Shop
May 2013
On Sale: April 25, 2013
Featuring: Laura Elliot; Hank Fitzpatrick; Beth Burke
300 pages
ISBN: 1612131514
EAN: 9781612131511
Kindle: B00CHQOYUM
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Contemporary | Fiction Family Life
Hank Fitzpatrick's life is what you might expect from a
manchild stumbling his way through and beyond adolescence
in the late 1980s in small town Indiana: hypersexual,
drunk, stoned, prone to fits of spontaneous masturbation,
occasionally Catholic, and accidentally
well–intentioned. Caught in the crossfire of raging
hormones, bad decisions and family tragedy, Hank is just a
boy not yet ready to be a man. His father casts an
impossibly perfect shadow over his entire life. His mother
is a gimlet–drinking, pill–popping flake. His
best friend stares down adversity with a half–gallon
of bourbon and a bottle of cough syrup. His girlfriend is
destined to either break his heart or save his life. And
his doting godfather lingers in the shadows as Hank's
greatest teacher. Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer speaks to that vast swath
of nostalgic, pop–fueled Gen X and Gen Y adults who
migrated from John Hughes in the 80s to the reality TV
voyeurism of the new millennium. These readers want to see
the homecoming king fall flat on his face, implode in
spectacular fashion, dust himself off, then do it all over
again. What's more, these readers now have
children—sons and daughters who inexplicably think
Reagan was cool, buy crimping irons, and wear
popped–collar Izods and off–the–shoulder
sweatshirts. Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer is more than
just an homage to the last uninhibited pre–AIDS,
pre–9/11, pre–Facebook generation. It's a
comedy. It's a tragedy. It's a love story. It's a
subversive yet empathetic, warts–and–all roman
à clef rooted in real–life that kids will read behind
their parents' backs. And if somewhere along the way we can all share in the
redemptive power of a belly dancer's love...well, that's
okay too.
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