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| Hating Olivia: A Love Story (Paperback - New) |
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Full blurb:
Hating Olivia is the story of Max Zajack. Max's life is in a rut, filled with cheap rooms, dead-end jobs and sexual and suicidal fantasies... until he meets the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite. But Olivia has a dark side... one exacerbated by the need to make ends meet. Soon she and Max descend into a new round of impossible jobs and a downward spiral of sex, sleaze and mutual destruction.
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First page first lines:
The war was over. I'd managed to avoid it, but it didn't mean a thing. Since that time – when I was on the dole or living off food stamps – I'd worked every job under the sun: factory hand, chauffeur, reporter, bank clerk. I hadn't done any whack-ward time but members of my immediate and extended family had. Major depression. Bizarre phobias. Alcoholism. Shock treatments. Suicide. All of which worried me – genetics are everything.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Mark SaFranko
Mark SaFranko is a survivor. He has survived psychotic women, threats to his life and borderline insanity. And jobs... lots of jobs. Freight loader, landscaper's assistant, truck driver, chauffeur, deliveryman, clothing salesman, short-order cook, newsboy, factory hand, astrologer, dinner theater actor, bar musician, film production assistant, teacher, editor, proofreader, bank clerk, political risk analyst, office temp, ghost writer, crime and sports reporter, stock clerk, government pensions clerk, fast food worker, and telephone sales solicitor. Despite thirty-plus years of daily grind SaFranko has continued to act, create plays, write songs, record albums and write short stories... lots of stories. Over 50 have already been published worldwide, while the total output is over 100... and counting. Mark SaFranko's work is ideal for fans of great writing: the ballsy blasts of Bukowski, the savage honesty of John Fante, the cutting visions of Henry Miller.
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Publisher: Murder Slim Press
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Reviews:
"It is a story of love and human addiction. Here the scenes between Max and his lady love are open heart surgery done with an axe. If you're a Henry Miller or Bukowski fan then Hating Olivia is fresh meat, a gift tied together with a blood-stained bow." - Dan Fante, author of Mooch, Chump Change and Spitting Off Tall Buildings.
“SaFranko writes from the heart, and the balls, crafting a furious and passionate piece of work that is entirely his own, with some scenes that would make even Bukowski blush." - Susan Tomaselli, Dogmatika
"This book is a page turner. SaFranko litters his story with his hopes and dreams and nightmares... This is a book that might have been created in the 1950s, with Maurice Girodias, publisher of the famed Olympia Press in Paris." - Colin Cooper, Beat Scene Issue 49.
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| Book code: BTD002 |
| Price: GBP £ 9.95 |
| USD $ 16.50 |
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