Stanley G. Crawford Książki

Set aboard the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine, this comic novel explores the complexities of domestic life through its characters' struggles with miscommunication and their determination to connect. The narrative blends humor with poignant moments, highlighting the challenges and nuances of relationships. As the story unfolds, readers are treated to an insightful examination of human nature and the intricacies of love and understanding within the confines of a shared space.

"Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.