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Linger Awhile

Russell Hoban

Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, star of 1950s cowboy B-movies, has been dead for 47 years. He saw her first in "Last Stage to El Paso", a lowlife black-and-whie Western, and has been unable to think of anything else since. Desperate, Goodman invokes the help of his old friend, Istvan Fallock, to see if they can't somehow coax a videotape to yield the 25-year-old Justine. So with a test tube, distillation of frog, a soupcon of primordial soup mixed with a suspension of disbelief, they summon her back to life. And to their surprise and consternation, she materializes. As a reward for lust and hubris, Irving gets a lot more than the affection and attention he'd bargained for. Thus beings an amazing tale of murder and mayhem in contemporary London, where sexy vampire cowgirls run amok, chased by men old enough to know better.

Book Details

  • Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2007
  • Pages: 132
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.30in - 0.50in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9781567923261
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Hoban, Russell: -

Russell Hoban is the author of more than sixty books.

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Praise for this book

"An adult fairy tale, an outrageous and genial fantasy of love, sex and death ... a unique and pecuilar union of the everyday and the wholly surreal."