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Couchwarmer
by Greg Kramer
Novel
283 pages
Trade Paper w/ French Flaps
5.5" X 8.5"
ISBN: 1896332021
$19.99
The Riverbank PressCouchwarmer
by Greg Kramer
A Laundromat Adventure.
Born with ambiguous gender, Cherry Beach's careening life trajectory has involved recreating him/herself many times and living on an endless succession of other peoples' couches. As another year draws to a close with a new crisis looming, Cherry trips across an improbable cache of winning lottery tickets that seems an answer to her prayers, propelling her into a mad slalom of greed which quickly attracts the denziens of her through-the-looking-glass nightclub demi-monde. By turns incredibly funny and deeply disturbing, Couchwarmer is a celebration of chaos, a riveting rollercoaster ride into a landscape of the 'acid Baroque.'
About Greg Kramer.
| Review: |
| "This
novel gleefully scratches at the underbelly of the urban postmodern
to teach us two things: the emperor wears women's clothing, and
a shadowland of gender ambiguity and slackerly anti-ambition is
alive and well and living in Canada... Kramer mythologizes an new
nation of anti-heroes, and if nothing else, deserves a (dis)Order
of Canada for proving that we can harbour disaffection as well as
anyone else... Couchwarmer's plot is all about scratch 'n' wins
and laundromats — little rewards reminding us that humanity
comes bearing all kinds of labels." — Quill & Quire |
