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Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

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Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

by Greg Kramer

Cormorant Books | August 3, 1998 | Trade Paperback

Born with ambiguous gender, Cherry Beach''s careening life trajectory has involved recreating him/herself many times and living on an endless succession of other peoples'' couches. As another year draws to a close with a new crisis looming, Cherry trips across an improbable cache of winning lottery tickets that seems an answer to her prayers, propelling her into a mad slalom of greed which quickly attracts the denziens of her through-the-looking-glass nightclub demi-monde. By turns incredibly funny and deeply disturbing, Couchwarmer is a celebration of chaos, a riveting rollercoaster ride into a landscape of the ''acid Baroque.''
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The financially and gender-challenged Cherry Beach has leapt fully formed from Greg Kramer's wildly inventive imagination in Couchwarmer, a tale of the thirty-something breed of urban creatures who suffer from lack of rent, sleep and daylight. Another crazy and original novel from the creator of the notorious Pursemonger of Fugu, Couchwarmer begins in an alcohol-soaked bar and ends in a zany golden goose-type chase for lottery winnings in neon-lit streets of alienation and greed.

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Born with ambiguous gender, Cherry Beach''s careening life trajectory has involved recreating him/herself many times and living on an endless succession of other peoples'' couches. As another year draws to a close with a new crisis looming, Cherry trips across an improbable cache of winning lottery tickets that seems an answer to her prayers, propelling her into a mad slalom of greed which quickly attracts the denziens of her through-the-looking-glass nightclub demi-monde. By turns incredibly funny and deeply disturbing, Couchwarmer is a celebration of chaos, a riveting rollercoaster ride into a landscape of the ''acid Baroque.''

About the Author

Greg Kramer is a director, actor, and writer. His two previous novels published by The Riverbank Press are The Pursemonger of Fugu and Couchwarmer. Hogtown Bonbons, his bi-weekly fiction column in Toronto''s Xtra magazine, was published as a book in 2000. He lives in Montreal.

Trade Paperback

1 Pages, 5.59 x 8.48 x 0.81 IN

August 3, 1998

Cormorant Books

English

Canadian Author


1896332021
9781896332024

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"This novel gleefully scratches at the underbelly of the urban postmodern to teach us two things: the emperor wears women''s clothing, and a shadowland of gender ambiguity and slackerly anti-ambition is alive and well and living in Canada ... Kramer mythologizes a new nation of anti-heroes, and if nothing else, deserves a (dis)Order of Canada for proving that we can harbour disaffection as well as anyone else... Couchwarmer''s plot is all about scratch ''n'' wins and laundromats - little rewards reminding us that humanity comes bearing all kinds of labels."

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