Pet, pet, slap / Andrew Battershill.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781552454763 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 237 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Coach House Books, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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Subject: | Boxers (Sports) > Fiction. Exotic animal owners > Fiction. Exotic animals > Fiction. |
Genre: | Magic realist fiction. Noir fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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- Perseus Publishing
Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue.
Boxer âPillow Fistâ Pete Wilson should be preparing for his big comeback fight. But, having recently undergone an ethical awakening, the new vegan is busy trying to find humane new homes for his menagerie of exotic pets (including Jersey Joe the sloth and Rigoberto the shark). His roommate, Sherlock Holmes, who faked his own death by waterfall, is now Pillowâs in-house doping expert.
Pillow just canât get motivated to train, and heâs further distracted from his push-ups when both his car and Rigoberto mysteriously disappear. Luckily, Sherlock is a master of deduction. What follows is part underdog sports story, part work of neozoological surrealism, and part existential mystery novel."Reckless, desperate, and achingly human, Battershill remains funnier than anyone else on your shelf." â Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold
"The adventures of Battershillâs returning protagonist Pillow are witty and occasionally absurd, but the story never trips on ironies. Battershill twines the humanity of pulp noir with the unsettling play of surrealism to build a world in which pet sloths, Sherlock Holmes, and skilled drug pushers all seem to have found their ideal home." â Naben Ruthnum, author of A Hero of Our Time
"Pillow Wilson is one of my favourite characters in CanLit, and he is in fine form in Pet, Pet, Slap, a deeply funny, inventive, bizarre, heartbreaker of a book. Andrew Battershill not only writes with that magical alchemy of humour and pathos that most writers only wish they could pull off, but he somehow also balances surrealism and profound humanity in a way Iâm sure Iâll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out. I havenât had this much fun reading in a long, long time." â Amy Jones, author of Pebble & Dove