Shades of Luz

by John Gorman

Overview

Shades of Luz is a modern day Don Quixote, a picaresque rich in characters searching for love and meaning in an otherwise manic-paced world. Grad School dropout Benny Fluke goes from stuffed animal peddler to thumb-wrestling champ. He is a monkey trainer, philosopher, wine snob, and a strip club connoisseur. Above and beyond all that he is a romantic at heart and is desperate to win the love of Luz the hot-blooded, ambitious beauty who keeps boomeranging into his life. Something from Luz's past inextricably bonds them together and Benny will not stop until she is his. Their delightful repartee is crisp, witty, and sumptuously engaging.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012806680
Publisher:	All Things That Matter Press
Publication date:	06/29/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	204 KB

About the Author

John Gorman's stories have been published in Mississippi Review, The Shore, Nexus, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, The Rose and Thorn, Word Riot, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. He won the 2003 NY Int'l Indie Film and Video Festival screenplay competition with For the Love of Auntie. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

Brute vulnerability emerges through the voice of Benny Fluke, a young street vendor exploited by an underground stock market operation that mistreats monkeys and geniuses alike. Beneath the surface of Benny's comme ci, comme ca disposition is a man yearning to break from his swirling patterns of dependence in order to venture into the dangerous adult world of survival. Gorman seamlessly weaves several unexpected plot threads together, creating a tapestry of unscrupulous industry and inimitable r

Debra Tenney

Shades of Luz pulled me in with vivid, outlandish scenes and an engaging narrative voice. Full of passages that are equal parts innocent and strange, vivid and experimental, I found myself intrigued from the get and absorbed until the end. As a writer, I was left wondering, just how did an emerging author pull this off? As a reader, I was left wondering, when's Gorman's next book coming?

Jen Knox