Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me

De: Cullen Ramakrishna Herskovits

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me tells the story of a decrepit hotel, now defunct, called the Resplendent, in what was then called the Borscht Belt in upstate New York's Sullivan County and of the small army of menial workers made up of drifters, derelicts and students called "bimmies," who infested it in the summer of the first Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. "Twenty-five year-old Cullen Ramakrishna Herskovits has written a mean and vicious, sexed-up Catch 22 set in a Twilight Zone where Last Exit to Brooklyn meets the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and a Catcher in the Rye with a juvenile delinquent Holden Caulfield as its protagonist. This paradox of a novel somehow manages to strike visceral and existential paydirt on practically every page from cover to cover. You curse yourself for continuing to read this book, but you just can't help it." -- Globe Literary Supplement Excerpt: Kafka's revenge of stoned, cloned Gregor Samsas surged in an endless, mindless, pointless buglike army of inebriates. It was like an invasion of berserk mutant ants, a voracious swarm of insect humanoids, all hotwired into a single mass-mind and overrunning everything in its path. The Buckingham loomed ahead of them like a giant neon Chinese take-out carton sitting unguarded on the counter-top of creation and ripe for conquest...The State Troopers were there waiting behind a roadblock of copcars and police barricades, armed with riot shotguns and Mace...