Rock Gods & Messy Monsters
Diane Hatz
(Author)
Description
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(...in a 1990s record company!)
Aliens hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex's dream job has turned into a nightmare.
What should she do?
It's the 1990s. Alex arrives at Acht Records, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss's walls. It goes downhill from there.
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is a humorous story about life inside a record company. Yet between the lines of satire and nods to science fiction, the book is a thought-provoking female narrative and social commentary on the corporate world.
Join Alex as she weaves through a comedic cast of characters and down crazed corridors of power, where her boss attempts to thwart her at every turn.
The 1990s New York City music scene never seemed so alien, yet so familiar.
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- #1 Amazon Kindle Hot New Release in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Music1st Runner Up, Eric Hoffer Award, Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize 2024 (Short List Finalist)Da Vinci Eye Award 2024 (Finalist)First Horizon Award 2024 (Finalist)BookBub New Releases for Less (Sept 2022)Independent Book Review Top 30 Impressive Books 2022 & Starred Review
Product Details
| Publisher | Whole Healthy Group LLC |
| Publish Date | September 07, 2022 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9798986282329 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.8 pounds |
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Reviews
"The novel is so perverse it causes one to laugh out loud at the deranged storyline and detailed descriptions, offering an easy-to-read yarn for those looking for something different. This is truly satire at its best." -- Carol Anderson, US Review of Books
"A fast paced, entertaining comic treat." - Kirkus Discoveries
"Satirical, zany, hilarious-a gut-punching commentary about the inner workings of the music industry, its power complexes, and power plays." - The BookLife Prize (From Publishers Weekly)
"It's difficult to really pin down Rock Gods. You could take it at face value and chalk it down as pure abstract surrealism. You could also decode comma and quotation mark for deeply written philosophical wisdom. I think it's a little bit of both." - The Lit Refinery
"Fast-paced and funny. A timeless struggle, set in a dystopian world where reality and fantasy merge to bring home hard realities with humor and wit." - International Review of Books
"Sets out to prove that work sucks with the aplomb and grit of a gladiator. And oh hell does the novel prove it, in more ways and with more reasons than you would expect." - Independent Book Review
"A sterling example of modern absurdist observation and writing." - Midwest Book Review
"A compelling and highly satirical look at the music industry of the 1990s. A FINALIST and highly recommended!" - The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
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