Sock - by Penn Jillette (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When a police diver finds the body of his ex-lover in the waters off New York City, he realizes she was the love of his life, so he sets off to find her killer along with her best friend, a gay hairdresser.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs, occasionally stops to tell a side story, and references a treasure trove of 1970's and 1980's pop culture. <p/><i>Sock</i> is a surprising, intense, fascinating piece of work.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Penn has written a strange, sometimes still, sometimes thunderous novel that is unlike anything I've ever read...Reading Penn's novel was joyfully exhausting, which is how we should feel when we've been in the presence of such seriously good writing.<br>- Kaye Gibbons, author of <i>Ellen Foster</i> and <i>Divining Women</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Jillette] writes the way he talks, in a sort of blizzard of smart-alecky, philosophical wit, but adds a pop-song allusion to nearly every paragraph; perhaps the only thing like his style is Stephen King streaming the consciousness of one of his crazed, possessed lowlifes...<i>Sock</i> is socko!" --<i>Booklist</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Penn Jillette</b> has been the larger, louder half of the performing team Penn & Teller since 1975. Penn's articles has appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Playboy</i> and other publications. <i>Sock</i> is his first novel. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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