Broken Piano for President - Softcover

Wensink, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621050203 ISBN 13: 9781621050209

Publisher: Eraserhead Pr, 2012

Synopsis

The international bestseller at the center of the "World's Nicest Cease and Desist" from Jack Daniel's. 

Featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, Forbes, London Telegraph, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR's Weekend Edition and more.

Ever drank too much and forgot what happened? Don't be embarrassed. Deshler Dean faces this problem every day of his life.

Dean is far more brilliant and productive when he's blackout drunk. In the last few months alone, he has invented a hamburger more addictive than crystal meth, scored a six-figure record contract for his terrible art rock band, and started dating a woman he doesn't even recognize. Worse yet, he has become entangled in the biggest war since the Allies took on Germany.
When rival fast food chains duke it out for control over Dean's burger-inventing genius, Dean and his band mates plunge into the absurd world of corporate paranoia and greed. As the violence of the burger wars spills out onto the streets, it's up to them to win over the hearts (and stomachs) of the American people and save the country from the equivalent of a deep-fried nuclear warhead.
With the humor of Christopher Moore and the madcap sprawl of Thomas Pynchon, Broken Piano for President is a comic masterpiece about the fast food industry, booze, and the necessity to choose happiness over work and security.

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From the Inside Flap:

"[A] psychedelic trip of a novel."-Publishers Weekly "A laugh out loud, thought-provoking novel."-JMWW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       -"A D.I.Y. Frankenstein's monster that uses parts pulled off Kurt Vonnegut and David Cronenberg, drunkenly stitched together while a Stooges bootleg plays at 110 decibels."-Louisville Courier-Journal                                                                                                                                                 -"Broken Piano often reminds me in ways of [Nick] Cave's last novel, The Death of Bunny Munro."-The Fanzine                                                                                                                                               -"Chok-full of sharp wit and punk irreverence and is a guaranteed treat for all enemies of Jonathan Franzen."-Esoterrorist                                                                                                                                                -"Like Christopher Moore on very strong acid.  In Broken Piano For President, he's created a Pynchonesque universe...A rollicking good time of a novel."
-Greg Olear, author of FATHERMUCKER and TOTALLY KILLER

"Not only continues to break fresh Wensinkian ground, he continues to find his voice, a warped voice surely, but one uniquely his own."
-Ben Tanzer, author of My Father's House and You Can Make Him Like You-PRAISE FOR PATRICK WENSINK

• "Deliciously dark and funny."- Louisville-Courier Journal
• "This is Wensink's special touch: to go as far out as possible with character and concept, but still drive a deeper meaning home. He does so by mixing his Palahniukian style with the kind of twisted humor you can normally only find on Adult Swim."- LEO Weekly
• "In Wensink's world 'nothing special' always turns 'mucho weirdo' before the story is over."- PANK
• "One of those rare gifts we get every now and again."- The Fanzine
• "Irreverent, outrageous, and fearless in his choice of material, Patrick Wensink has a true knack for absurdity."- JOEY GOEBEL, author of Torture the Artist
• "Patrick Wensink demonstrates a gift for darkly absurdist humor that (just guessing here) surely derives from watching either too much or not enough television." - JAMES GREER, author of The Failure
• "Absurd, surreal, and funny." - Lance Carbuncle, author of SMASHED, SQUASHED, SPLATTERED, CHEWED, CHUNKED AND SPEWED
• "Wensink has a sharp wit on display."- Jordan Krall, author of Tentacle Death Trip

About this edition

• Publisher: Eraserhead Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1621050203
• ISBN 13: 9781621050209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372