Fairwood Press
Count Geiger's Blues
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9781933846484
ISBN13:
9781933846484
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$20.09
Count Geiger's Blues
$20.09
Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish, and soap operas as the contemptible spew of script-writing committees. While skinny-dipping in a pool polluted with radioactive waste, Thaxton is afflicted with superpowers all his own and becomes that which he most scorns. A radiation-induced ailment, the Philistine Syndrome, forces him to assume the persona of comic-book hero Count Geiger to allay its career- and indeed life-threatening symptoms. Michael Bishop's Count Geiger Blues, a novel of intellectual heft and self-spoofing kitsch, is a take on superheroes like no other: a rollicking foray into high and low culture that mines the vicissitudes and tragedies of everyday life for serious belly laughs and bona fide heartbreak.
| Author: Michael Bishop |
| Publisher: Fairwood Press |
| Publication Date: Nov 04, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 354 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1933846488 |
| ISBN-13: 9781933846484 |
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