Eddie Plum, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew.
On the run, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets, the telepathic dog, laments the loss of Sofia, his madhouse lover, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend, Shelly Hubbard, a fellow horseplayer, record collector/dealer, and hardcore loner, who tells him about his brother, Donny, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam.
Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes, the madhouse lover, and the police, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on
Whirlaway, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients, horseplayers, and record collectors.
قائمة المحتويات
Chap 1) Railroaded by Luminescence
Chap 2) Mudville/I Wish It Would Rain
Chap 3) Dyskinesia
Chap 4) Life Begins at Forty-One
Chap 5) Chivalrous Deceptions
Chap 6) The Key’s in the Ashtray
Chap 7) Island of the Butterscotch Beast
Chap 8) Dr. Seuss in the Sky
Chap 9) Gigantic Australian Counterclockwise Stampedes
Chap 10) Hermaphrodites, Bikers, and French Teachers
Chap 11) Coco Puff
Chap 12) Marvelous Marvelle/Let the Sunshine in
Chap 13) Sex and Murder Self-Help Book
Chap 14) Jimmy Is in Good Hands with God
Chap 15) Beauty Chasers
Chap 16) Tales of Scottish Mastectomy
Chap 17) Bee-doo Woman from Another Dimension, Possibly Hell
Chap 18) Martha at the Apollo
Chap 19) Psychotic Reaction
Chap 20) The Missing Prostitutes
Chap 21) The Bones of La Zona Basura
Chap 22) Mo Ho
Chap 23) Whirlaway
Chap 24) Zopilote Being an Indian Word for “Vulture”
Chap 25) Flowers in the Sea
Chap 26) It Ain’t Goldilocks
Chap 27) My Boy Lollipop
Chap 28) KLIK in Canoga Park
Chap 29) Boys Love Their Mothers
Chap 30) Try a Little Tenderness
Chap 31) Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Chap 32) Whiplash I Was Taking a Bath
Chap 33) Mister Jang-Jingler (Dance)
Chap 34) Back to the Island
Chap 35) The Giant Clam Eats Children
Chap 36) Love Does Not Experience Time
Chap 37) Give Me Stilton, Blue and Gold
Chap 38) Run Through the Jungler
عن المؤلف
Poe Ballantine currently lives in Chadron, Nebraska. The documentary of the same title as Ballantine’s memoir , Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, won the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Hot Doc Award as well as the Big Sky award, given to the film that captures the spirit of the American West. Michael Moore included filmmaker Dave Jannetta’s Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere at the Traverse City Film Festival and the documentary was also a finalist for the Philadelphia Geek Award. To view the trailer, click here: https://youtu.be/e Bv BKa4KJpg.
Ballantine’s work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Sun, Kenyon Review, and The Coal City Review. In addition to garnering numerous Pushcart and O. Henry nominations, Mr. Ballantine’s work has been included in the anthologies The Best American Short Stories 1998 and The Best American Essays 2006.
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