
Zebra Skin Shirt
Tony Parella
(Afterword by)Description
A psychedelic tale of adventure and love unfolding on Hill's beloved Eastern Colorado Plains. Our hero and narrator, Narwhal Slotterfield, treks through tornadoes, gutted homesteads and survivalist compounds all while navigating an alternative time/space reality. He's on a journey of self-discovery that resonates as an experimental love song to rural culture on the plains.
--Richard Saxton, M12 Studio Director and Professor University of Colorado Boulder
Product Details
Publisher | Daisy Dog Press |
Publish Date | November 14, 2019 |
Pages | 366 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780578562735 |
Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Absurd and surreal, without ever crossing the line into silliness, Zebra Skin Shirt is an excellent novel from an author that clearly understands the stupidity, chaos and madness of existence, and isn't afraid to embrace it all and put it on the page.
--Cory Casciato, Suspect Press
Before Narwhal Slotterfield, the mortals of "Strattford" myth had to reckon with a culturally-erosive, all-encroaching Future. In "Zebra Skin Shirt," Narwhal suffers every atomized moment of the Right-Fucking-Now. It's a cosmic ordeal, Greg Hill's third excellent novel in a row, and a trip well worth taking.
--Mike Molnar Chicken Pickin' King of Country/Western Guitar
A basketball referee with the Pynchonesque name of Narwal Slotterfield orders a hamburger at a diner in eastern Colorado and time stops across the universe. What happens after that becomes a funhouse-mirror holograph of a novel produced by Slotterfield's cornered brain as it tries to understand this new world. Time hasn't stopped, he learns, it has just slowed down, slow enough to allow Gregory Hill's wild story to unfold in completely unexpected ways.
--John Vernon, Author of Lucky Billy
Part mystery, part Steven Wright stand-up routine, part Einsteinian thought experiment, what do you call Zebra Skin Shirt? Sly-Fi? Off-off-off-beat? Magical Surrealism? Whatever it is, three cheers for the unforgettable former amateur basketball referee, Narwhal W. Slotterfield, and his creator, the wildly imaginative Gregory Hill.
--Mike Keefe, Political Cartoonist
Zebra Skin Shirt is Jack Kerouac on amphetamines. It's Proust on meth. It's James Joyce on nitrous oxide. It's Lewis Carroll after smoking a bowl of The Blue Dream.
--Mark Stevens, Author of the Allison Coil Mystery Series
A brilliantly-executed, fascinating, and relentlessly hilarious immersion
into the Twilight Zone as it exists on the plains of Eastern Colorado. Hill's
imagination on full-blast is a force of nature. This ranks with the best of Vonnegut's mind-benders, but with more laughs page-for-page.
--Zach Boddicker, Author of The Essential Carl Mahogany
A psychedelic tale of adventure and love unfolding on Hill's beloved Eastern Colorado Plains. Our hero and narrator, Narwhal Slotterfield, treks through tornadoes, gutted homesteads and survivalist compounds all while navigating an alternative time/space reality. He's on a journey of self-discovery that resonates as an experimental love song to rural culture on the plains.
--Richard Saxton, M12 Studio Director and Professor University of Colorado Boulder
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