A Hoarse Half-Human Cheer
by X. J. Kennedy
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Pub Date Jan 04 2015 | Archive Date Sep 21 2015
Curtis Brown Unlimited | AuthorBuzz
Description
In this sinister comedy, a small Catholic college at the end of World War II has spectacular troubles. Overnight it has recklessly expanded from a dozen students to 4,500, and the Newark Mafia finds the school a handy front for a racket in war surplus materials. It's a tough scene for an earthy priest who coaches basketball and nerd fresh out of high school, an apprentice mortician. Both face powerful temptation from a woman biology professor, a sex bomb whose motto is "Nymphomania is a heavy cross to bear."
Advance Praise
"An entertainment:" is an apropos signifier for this comic whirlwind set in post WWII northeast New Jersey at a small Catholic college suddenly overloaded with GIs. Brightly drawn comic characters {are] driven to collide by their needs and wants in a complex, madcap comic plot that resolves in a satisfying conclusion. I was reminded of the Cary Grant screwball comedies, however with an R rating for comic profanity, vivid sex scenes (one involving our virginal, luckless student reporter who escapes a mobster's house naked under fire, which caused me to put the book down and laugh out loud).
... I found myself casting actors for the movie, which I would stand in line to see.
—John Burbridge
Kennedy has writren an uproariously funny and absurd entertainment that doesn't disappoint. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the bizarre antics that color this story. .... The fact that this all occurs under the sacred dome of a Catholic college makes ... this book not for the religiously faint of heart, though the rest will certainly enjoy it.
—Stephen Russell Payne
When comedy is colored by melancholy it becomes a dark cocktail ... A Hoarse Half-human Cheer is that kind of entertainment, but more than an entertainment: it made me nostalgic, sad, and even tearful at times, but I laughed, the way I always laugh at the lunacy of life. A funny thing happened to me on my way through Kennedy's novel. It'll happen to you, too. Read it and see,
—E. M. Schorb
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| ISBN | 9780692270738 |
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