Dixie Salvage

ISBN-13: 9781500693053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 190 str.

Gary Isringhaus

Opis

Dixie Salvage is a comedy that promises a humorous adventure on every page. Discover what it feels like to be a pole dancer in West Hollywood. Become a missionary/salesman for a Satanic church where you channel the spirits of dead pitchmen from times past. Meet real zombies working on a rice plantation in Haiti. Venture back to North Carolina for Pa's funeral and resurrect him from the dead. Drink moonshine with hillbillies and dance the night away as you dream of a tropical paradise. It's a nonstop howling laugh fest from the first chapter to the last and you'll enjoy Dixie Salvage so much that you won't be able to put it down. The Goodman family own Dixie Salvage, an auto wrecking yard in Asheville North Carolina. Ma on her deathbed tells her son Sonny family secrets that she has never revealed to anyone. Sickened by these secrets, Sonny escapes to Los Angeles where he falls in love with a pole dancer in West Hollywood and becomes a missionary/ salesman for a New Age Satanic church. A couple of years later Pa dies and he must go back for the funeral. He arrives too late, but throws a wake for his father where he gets into a conflict with his older brother over their inheritance and what is to become of Dixie Salvage. Dixie Salvage is a farce that deals with sex, religion, moonshine, stock car racing, and a utopian search for paradise. "In Isringhaus' (King Brute, 2008) second novel, a Southern boy's Los Angeles sojourn is cut short when his father becomes ill. After Sonny Goodman's mother reveals some long-held family secrets on her deathbed, he finds himself too disturbed to remain with his father and his brother, Floyd, at the family's auto wrecking yard in Asheville, North Carolina. Instead, he chooses to head out west to Los Angeles. After a brief stint selling gold coins for exorbitant prices, he winds up employed by the Church of Satanology selling religion instead. He also meets and falls in love with a stripper named Tiffany Diamond, although things don't always go smoothly. When Sonny's moonshine-loving father gets dangerously sick, Floyd calls him home, but by the time Sonny arrives there, his dad's already in the ground. When there's a dispute about the brothers' inheritance and the family's property, Sonny finds that he has some other uses for the tricks he learned at the church-and that his father's spirit isn't quite gone just yet. Sonny's unconventional line of work is full of unexpected twists and turns, including a visit to a rice plantation in Haiti that features zombies. The segments in Los Angeles, which have a noirish quality, are the most entertaining and engaging in the book. A novel of enterprising American success..." Kirkus Reviews

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