Ovenman
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"OVENMAN: A Novel"
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28 years old
G-ville, Florida
United States
Last Login:7/23/2008
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| General | fishing, velocity, girls | | Music | 13Ghosts, Agent Orange, Asshole Parade, Eric Bachman, Bad Brains, Band of Horses, Buju Banton, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Descendents, Dag Nasty, Get-Up Kids, Hot Snakes, Metroschifter, Modest Mouse, Operation Ivy, Radon, Chuck Ragan, Seaweed, Slayer, Straightener, White Stripes, Hank Williams, Amy Winehouse | | Television | Discovery Channel, fire, PBS | | Books | New books you should get now: Are You There God? It's Me, Kevin by Kevin Keck, Lady Lazarus by Andrew Altschul, 6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca, Twenty Grand by Rebecca Curtis, The Sabotage Cafe by Joshua Furst, Pyres by Derek Nikitas
Also: Oedipus Wrecked by Kevin Keck, Barney's Crew by Sean Carswell, Before You She Was a Pitbull by Elizabeth Ellen, Open Curtain by Brian Evenson, Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston, Next Door Lived a Girl by Stefan Kiesbye, American Youth by Phil Lamarche, Homeland by Sam Lipsyte, Rabbit Punches by Jason Ockert, The Lone Surfer of Montana Kansas by Davy Rothbart, In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
All-time favs: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, Another Good Lovin' Blues by Arthur Flowers, Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, Jesus's Son by Denis Johnson, The Unbearable Lightness of being by Milan Kundera, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders, and a shitload more | | Heroes | Kevin Keck |
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Fans of Hobartpulp.com, Indie Bookstores, Myspace Book Club, Author Larry Brown, Book Worm!, Do You Skate?, Dzanc Books
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| Status: | Single | | Body type: | 0' 0" / Slim / Slender | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Occupation: | Night Manager |
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About me:
"You can get a job anywhere in America if you can handle a grill."
—Harry Crews
Ovenman is a comic skateboarder/kitchen worker novel by Jeff Parker. There is a website with video blackout scenes by designer Ryan Molloy and songs by Bradley Armstrong @ www.iamovenman.com
"Jeff Parker is a writer who understands that voice is the doorway to all true beauty in fiction. Tight, wry, dark, and deeply funny—he is a master of the hyper-compressed sentence that explodes with more meaning and nuance than should be possible. Ovenman is a welcome addition to the literature of the lovably hapless by a young writer with talent to burn."
—George Saunders, author of Pastoralia and In Persuasion Nation
"Funny, soulful, and energetic, Ovenman is wonderful."
—Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica
"Rarely are mopping and pizza dough so pleasingly rendered. Even inside When's world of chaos, Parker's novel pushes forward with grace. This is a delight of a debut."
—Aimee Bender, author of Willful Creatures and An Invisible Sign of My Own
"Mr. Parker has written a weirdly attractive life of people one thought had no life, the pierced and tatted Xtremes. Creepy, convincing, hooty, and fun. The movie will be scary."
—Padgett Powell, author of Edisto
"In his utterly original Ovenman, Parker has created a time capsule of the nineties in Central Florida and an ode to the mysteries and hopes and acrobatics of youth. When Thinfinger, the skateboarding philosopher at the heart of this terrific novel, is brilliantly acerbic and uncommonly insightful. And awfully, awfully funny. Here's a brief note of which I hope he'd approve: This novel really cooks. Read it tonight."
—Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of Creative Writing, Harvard University
Also by Jeff Parker: The Back of the Line
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