By Stanley Crawford

NEW experiment. totally PROOFED/CORRECTED.

Back in print after greater than a decade, Stanley Crawford's dynamically charged, hystercally black-comic first novel has been defined as "a script for a film starring Groucho Marx, as written by way of the inmates of Charenton below the course of W.C. Fields ... wildly funny." (Washington Star)

Meet Gascoyne, (" a mixture of Sam Spade performed by means of Inspector Clouseau plus Howard Hughes performed by way of Dr. Strangelove – or them all performed by means of invoice Murray" - The Austin Chronicle) a brand new breed of hero, a guy who spends entire weeks in his vehicle, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his company - wielding energy, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - through cellular phone as he in some way manages to force via bumper-to-bumper site visitors at fifty miles an hour. yet he's came across a brand new preoccupation, weeding out the killer - final visible slithering clear of the crime scene in a tree-sloth dress - of his company affiliate and checking out how the southern California megalopolis has without notice slipped out of his grasp.A travel de strength mixing of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, technology fiction, mad health care professional videos, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective tales - first released in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look at a destiny that appears remarkably just like the present.

"A mad fantasia of the highway Age which occurs in a type of Southern California-cubed and starts (at least) as a secret ... great (I appreciate a guy who can conceive a homicide suspect who is going round disguised as an immense tree sloth)." - Anthony Boucher, the hot York occasions publication Review

"Gascoyne is vintage slapstick. Wild." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Stanley Crawford's "Gascoyne" is without doubt one of the so much fascinating figures in contemporary American secret fiction." - The Augusta Chronicle

"...displays a deep figuring out of the advanced firm of being human ... [an] eerily prophetic examine verbal exchange, intake and consumerism." - Bookslut

"[Crawford] is on top of things all through and we're giggling knowingly, yet thinking about how he defined the L.A. tradition of this present day long ago in 1966." - InsideOutMag.com

Stanley Crawford is the writer of Petroleum guy, a few directions, Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine and several other works of non-fiction. he's co-proprietor together with his spouse, Rose Mary, of El Bosque Farm in Dixon, New Mexico.

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