Kansas Pity

from the author of THIS HAPPY LIFE and SHIVER: the life and times of a serial marrier (which Kirkus Discoveries Review calls "a rollicking satire") comes a major new novel...KANSAS PITYThe fortunes and misfortunes of a petite musician who takes on the mantle of Saint Cecilia, traverses America by train and bus, travels to India, and then flies straight into the AIDS epidemic on wings of mercy. (It's a tragicomedy!)Reviews of SHIVER: the life and times of a serial marrier..."A...
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from the author of THIS HAPPY LIFE and SHIVER: the life and times of a serial marrier (which Kirkus Discoveries Review calls "a rollicking satire") comes a major new novel...KANSAS PITYThe fortunes and misfortunes of a petite musician who takes on the mantle of Saint Cecilia, traverses America by train and bus, travels to India, and then flies straight into the AIDS epidemic on wings of mercy. (It's a tragicomedy!)Reviews of SHIVER: the life and times of a serial marrier..."A happy-go-lucky polygamist weds his way through post-war American history in this bawdy picaresque...a rollicking satire." -Kirkus Discoveries Reviews, February 7, 2011"Not since Terry Southern's first novel, Candy, written more than half a century ago (and like Shiver: the life and times of a serial marrier also originally published under a pseudonym) have I read a novel that covers so much territory and glazes it all with such a dark, searing, absurdist and unsparing vision of American civilization and its discontents." -Amazon Customer Review"Debunking those who insist that the picaresque novel breathed its last in the 18th century, this fresh new voice takes us on an antic romp through the middle and late 20th in the company of a protagonist who might be channeling Fielding's Tom Jones." -Amazon Customer Review