An edition of Whirlaway (2018)

Whirlaway

the great American loony bin, horseplaying & record-collecting novel

Whirlaway
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An edition of Whirlaway (2018)

Whirlaway

the great American loony bin, horseplaying & record-collecting novel

Eddie Plum, who insists he's been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets, the telepathic dog, laments the loss of Sofia, his madhouse lover, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend, Shelly Hubbard, a fellow horseplayer, record collector/dealer, and hardcore loner, who tells him about his brother, Donny, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help, but by then he's already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes, the madhouse lover, and the police, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway , a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients, horseplayers, and record collectors.

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English
Pages
189

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3602.A599 W48 2018, PS3602.A599W48 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
189 pages
Number of pages
189

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26960216M
ISBN 10
0997068396
ISBN 13
9780997068399
LCCN
2017016439
OCLC/WorldCat
987591416
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B07B5MDYKZ

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