Straight Out Of Lewis Carroll's Trash Can: A Jonathan Tollhausler Adventure - Softcover

Rumpf, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615398081 ISBN 13: 9780615398082

Publisher: Spielplatz Novelties, 2010

Synopsis

Why did the student cross the campus? If it’s Jonathan Tollhausler, it certainly wasn’t to attend a class. Should the self-professed Groucho fan drop out and write a book? Or is he just chicken? Follow Tollhausler & his friends as they cut class, chase women and joke their way to the other side of yet another semester, finally answering that age old question: Was Frank Zappa right about college?

About this title

About the Author

Michael J. Rumpf is probably a real person who always loved books, and it was after reading some really great writers (James Thurber, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, Doug Adams...) that he was inspired to write a book as well. He hopes you'll enjoy it.

From the Back Cover

Sgt. Rostropovich took one mighty step closer and rested a pair of box-like fists on his hips. He took in the lineup of suspects with his steely eyes. "And what do we have here?"

"You mean you don't know?!" Tollhausler smiled. "You've got a pretty blonde, a guy dressed like the pope, his girlfriend, the Duchess of Kirkcaldy, my twin, a guy masquerading as a security guard, Richard Mead, and, to top it all off, kettle drums. I'll tell you what you've got here. Either the second act of a failed Kaufman and Hart play or a chapter straight out of Lewis Carroll's trash can."

Reviews

Starred Review. Girls are hot and studies are not, in this rollicking, good-humored idyll of 1983 undergraduate life at Rudyard University. College slacker Jonathan Tollhausler is content to idle away his time while he focuses on the important elements of student life: improving his luck with the opposite sex. His like-minded pals engage in card games, bull sessions, frat parties, and bemoaning the pointlessness of college. Rumpf's dialogue is witty, and bedroom farce is as delightful as it is in Shakespeare. Contrasts between student antics and stern security guards infuse an occasional grim note, but any clouds on the horizon are usually related to romantic spats. When love interest Diane Curzewski finally commits to Tollhausler, she has been as delighted by the affable misfit as the reader will surely be.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spielplatz Novelties
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615398081
• ISBN 13: 9780615398082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388