<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005)</p> <p><i>Foozlers</i> is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on the cusp of total breakdown. The groom-to-be in an Indian arranged marriage seeks an escape of the carnal variety. Soon, they will all intersect paths with a gas station attendant and a very “special” car wash operator. And somebody’s got to do something about that noisy, bad-tempered cockatoo.</p> <p><i>Foozlers</i> chronicles that thin line between sane and insane behaviour, and the mayhem and unpredictability fuelled by the “Butterfly Effect”-strangers’ paths crossing for only an instant but having explosive effects. By story’s end, lives, or at least attitudes, will change. Sort of.</p> <p>Praise for <i>Foozlers</i>:</p> <p>“Like Blaise Cendrars’ <i>To the End of the World</i>, John Kennedy Toole’s <i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i> and the whacked-out works of J.P. Donleavy, Terry Southern and William Burroughs, <i>Foozlers</i> is a madcap tour de force.” (<i>The Vancouver Sun</i>)</p> <p>“irreverent, break-neck pace, and rollercoaster prose that’s a lot of fun to ride” (<i>Quill & Quire</i>)</p> <p>“It’s a caper story with every element slightly off-kilter. And that’s the charm of [<i>Foozlers</i>] . . . . Read it and laugh.” (<i>RainReview.com</i>)</p>
<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005)</p> <p><i>Foozlers</i> is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on the cusp of total breakdown. The groom-to-be in an Indian arranged marriage seeks an escape of the carnal variety. Soon, they will all intersect paths with a gas station attendant and a very “special” car wash operator. And somebody’s got to do something about that noisy, bad-tempered cockatoo.</p> <p><i>Foozlers</i> chronicles that thin line between sane and insane behaviour, and the mayhem and unpredictability fuelled by the “Butterfly Effect”-strangers’ paths crossing for only an instant but having explosive effects. By story’s end, lives, or at least attitudes, will change. Sort of.</p> <p>Praise for <i>Foozlers</i>:</p> <p>“Like Blaise Cendrars’ <i>To the End of the World</i>, John Kennedy Toole’s <i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i> and the whacked-out works of J.P. Donleavy, Terry Southern and William Burroughs, <i>Foozlers</i> is a madcap tour de force.” (<i>The Vancouver Sun</i>)</p> <p>“irreverent, break-neck pace, and rollercoaster prose that’s a lot of fun to ride” (<i>Quill & Quire</i>)</p> <p>“It’s a caper story with every element slightly off-kilter. And that’s the charm of [<i>Foozlers</i>] . . . . Read it and laugh.” (<i>RainReview.com</i>)</p>