The Beard - Softcover

Prunty, Andersen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615326331 ISBN 13: 9780615326337

Publisher: Atlatl Press, 2009

Synopsis

Seven-year-old David Glum watches as his grandfather is abducted by a legendary herd of elephants. Twenty years later, David returns to his parents' home to focus on growing a beard, a goal he feels sure he can accomplish. Once the beard reaches a respectable girth, uncontrollable things begin happening around him. His mother dies. Maybe. His father might really be a man named Gary Wrench. David is sure of one thing: his family is cursed. It could have something to do with an eternal flame his grandfather stole from a possibly imaginary group of people called the Nefarions. David and Wrench begin a surreal cross-country journey that might have something to do with saving the world. Along the way they pass through a number of absurd towns, meet some disagreeable people, and discover an America that is radically different from the one they thought they knew. And all the while, the beard grows, gaining strength, leading them toward a distant island that most people think doesn't exist.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Completely captivated me; all the various - and extremely strange - characters are surprisingly sympathetic. - Tony Cole for MobileRead.com

If Holden Caulfield rented a timeshare in Vegas, only to find out he double-booked with Hunter S. Thompson, and then they both sat down over a buffet of mind-altering drugs and wrote a book, I THINK it might be something like The Beard. BEHOLD THE POWER OF FACIAL HAIR! - Nathaniel Lambert, co-author of Sideshow PI: The Devil's Garden and It's OK To Be a Zombie

The story is so wild and unpredictable that the reader learns to let go early on in the book and just enjoy the scenery as the author takes them on a road trip through the world of bizarro. - William Pauley III, author of Doom Magnetic!

Sure to please any fan of weird fiction. - Grant Wamack for Spontaneous Combustion

I loved this book. I loved its feel, its pace, and its imagery. - Lucas Thorn for Lateral Obsessions

It messes with your perspective, sense of time and space, and makes you wonder if you really just read that sentence. - Jim Gavin, author of Hard Boiled Vampire Killers

It's like eating a creativity sandwich. - Daniel Clausen, author of The Lexical Funk

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlatl Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615326331
• ISBN 13: 9780615326337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246