The Unexpected Salami
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The Tall Poppies--a few days ago, they were just another Aussie band watching their fame ebb faster than a nitrous high. Then Stuart, the drummer, is gunned down by Australian drug lords, and the band is suddenly news in Australia, America, and even on CNN. Rachel, a chatty twenty-seven-year-old New Yorker, is the band's housemate. She digs Colin, the bassist, who has commitment issues. After witnessing the murder, she flees to the safety of family in NYC, where she bumps into Stuart, the "corpse," ordering tuna salad on rye at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop. This is a story about sex, rock 'n' roll, the pressures of hipness, making it big, and reconciling family ties. And Colin and Rachel's own unlikely story of true love is the best unexpected salami of them all. "Full of fresh characters and crazy coincidences."--Library Journal; "An engagingly breezy first novel . . . has commendable energy and marches along smartly to its own arrhythmic, offbeat beat."--Kirkus Reviews; "The language is as crisp and dead-on as the movie Clueless, and the action as picaresque as Moll Flanders."--Frank McCourt, author of ANGELA'S ASHES.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1565122321
ISBN13:9781565122321
Release Date:April 1999
Publisher:Algonquin Books
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 7.0"
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4 ratings
an unexpected pleasure
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I first picked up this book because it had an interesting title. On a pure whim I read it and enjoyed it more than I have any book in years. It was refreshingly funny yet it has substance that kept me interested. I couldn't put it down. I have told everyone I know that enjoys reading to get this book. It is sharp,funny and a sure cult classic.
hilarious fun
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I got this book fro the holidays from my girlfriend. It's a book that I think would appeal to men and women, especially those with an urban humor.I hope it is going to be made into a movie. The book would translate well. Reading the novel is especially rewarding too. You get the sense Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a great wit to watch
Not for everyone, but I loved it
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Only if you want to laugh for a week. Don't give this to your grandmother, save it for yourself if you're the type that liked Spinal Tap. Raunchy and very very droll.
Edgy, funny, worth the bucks
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I'd read a intelligent, sassy interview with this new author before purchasing the book. My hunch was rewarded. This novel is fresh and furiously funny. Shapiro's characters are acerbic yet endearing and never cartoonish. Edgy. Something different.
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