Wonderdog - Softcover

Majors, Inman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015603090X ISBN 13: 9780156030908

Publisher: Harvest Books, 2005

Synopsis

Meet the unlikely Dev Degraw, son of the iconoclastic governor of Alabama and former child actor on the historically bad television drama Bayou Dog. In Tuscaloosa--home of the University of Alabama, ferocious wiener dogs, butter-eating contests, jackleg lawyers, and one-eyed stalkers--Dev moves among the denizens of local watering holes, the political bigwigs of the state capital, and the sundry elements of B-movie Hollywood.

As Wonderdog unfolds, he is trying his best to stay away from his father's heated bid for reelection and out of a costar's plans to organize a Bayou Dog cast reunion. But his efforts to rectify past glories with more recent foibles are foiled, and Dev is unwittingly thrust upon a career path that will at last begin to define him. The result is a tour de force of American revelry and a wholly original look at the comic vagaries of the human condition.

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Book Description

If (Barry) Hannah is Southern Fiction's Howlin' Wolf, then Majors may well prove to be its B.B. King...Quick-witted and irreverent.

From the Back Cover

"Wonderdog reads as if narrated by the ne'er-do-well, incorrigible, and brilliant wastrel cousin of Walker Percy's Binx Bolling. But Inman Majors has a brilliant voice all his own--cockeyed, very funny, and deeply cognizant of the tender mercies. This book's a hell of a read. I loved it."
- Brad Watson, author of The Heaven of Mercury

"Inman Majors shows why politics will drive a governor's ex-spouse into hiding in a house trailer, and their wiseacre son crazy. A knowing and funny book."
- Ann Richards, former governor of Texas

"Wonderdog reads like Charles Portis cross-pollinated with full-tilt Barry Hannah, but Majors's voice is his own, and his picaresque tale of Dev DeGraw and his adventures among the various highlifes and lowlifes of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, linger in the mind long after the last page is turned."--William Gay, author of The Long Home and Provinces of Night

"Wonderdog is a hilariously unruly novel in the fine tradition of Padgett Powell--smart, Southern, inventive, and mean. Majors has written a seriously funny book."
- James Whorton, author of Approximately Heaven

"I ventured a cautious nose between the covers of Wonderdog, and immediately this voice, this outrageous voice, reminded me, for some reason, of Old Jones in A Confederacy of Dunces. Maybe I shot a look over my shoulder a time or two--okay, maybe I gawked--at the characters parading by, but I wasn't about to get up until the crazy tale was told."
- Sonny Brewer, author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park and editor of Stories from the Blue Moon Café

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 015603090X
• ISBN 13: 9780156030908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292