
Back to the Wine Jug
A Comic Novel in Verse
Joe Taylor(Author)
Sagging Meniscus Press
Published on 1. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-944697-97-6 (ISBN)
Description
Fiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. In BACK TO THE WINE JUG, Joe Taylor, author of the comic verse novel PINEAPPLE, returns to the form with a tour de force of wit, erudition, and earthy imagination.
Dateline: Hades, the Underworld, where things go bad. But things are going even worse up top with red/blue states, Brexit, the Middle East, Hong Kong, and college football. Diogenes, still toting his lantern in search of one honest (wo)man, is appointed by Lord Hades himself to teleport up to lovely Birmingham, Alabama, and mollify mundial matters, accompanied by his Doberman Pluto and Victoria Woodhull, the suffragette and 1872 presidential candidate. The trio is on the case to right the world's confusion. But, Lord H. being a consomméed plot-thickener, they find themselves followed in the transporter by commie-hating troublemaker J. Edgar Hoover....
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montclair
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-944697-97-6 (9781944697976)
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Person
Joe Taylor is the author of several story collections and eight novels, most recently Silent Bob from Nat1 Book, LLC. He has three novels coming out in the next year or so, Persephone's Escalator from Sley House (who published his fantasy novel Bad Form), Eric and the Anti-Tankers plus Don't Be Lonely, Lone Ranger, both from Nat 1 Book, LLC. He has two comic novels in verse, Pineapple and Back to the Wine Jug, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He has been the director of Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama . . . forever.