"...A torrid tale of angst set in a surreal little town a bit like Petaluma. Our narrator is a frustrated and slightly delusional would-be screenwriter coping with art, love, and life while searching for a leg up (or at least a crumbling foothold) on his foundering career. Is he condemned forever to small-town Dullsville and his career as a beleaguered movie theater projectionist? Or will he reach the escape velocity attained by his former girlfriend, now a world-class concert cellist? ...The book's true strength, is the hilarious interaction among the narrator's charmingly bizarre circle of slackers, swingers, stymied geniuses, and other miscellaneous malcontents. Howell's gift for dialogue is this novel's greatest asset." ? Sonoma County Independent
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