Blood in My Hairspray

By Steven Schreibman

Book Overview

Steven Schreibman captures the essence of modern gay life in this twisted, hilarious comedy of manners. Blood in My Hairspray is a laugh-out-loud novel, gleefully mixing elements from across the pop... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403326169
• ISBN13: 9781403326164
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Well worth the wait!

I ordered this book along with Augusten Burroughs new book and had to wait almost 3 months for them to arrive. It was well worth the wait on both books! This was such a fun book to read. The main character Damian is both despicable and loveable at the same time. The book is campy and reads like a John Waters movie. It's a "saver" meaning I'll be keeping this in my permanent book collection. I'd recommend it definitely. After reading it, I found myself walking around grandly expressing "That's fabulous dahling" until my family begged me to stop.

Don't read it in church...

Good luck reading Blood in My Hairspray without laughing out loud. This is the funniest book I have read in many years. I loved it! From the very creative story line to the endearing and involving personalities, this murder-mystery should appeal to anyone who likes to laugh.Hats off to Mr. Schreibman for what I consider to be the best first effort since John Grisham. Genius!

A fun indulgence

I found this book to be a great peek into the indulgent gay persona. Steven Schreibman did a wonderful job helping me, a naive straight from Arizona, enjoy great humor in a very foreign world of gays, New Yorkers, hairdressers, and more. While centered around a mystery, the unique and in-your-face humor is the core of this book. It was "marvy!"

Blood in My Hairspray

> BIMH is the funniest book I have read in ages! The author has a uniquely<br>> inspired sense of humor. The book is very campy and highly creative . Much<br>> of the humor is subtle in the style of "Queer Eye for the Straight<br>> Guy"...and it comes at ya fast on every page! I can't believe this is a<br>> debut novel from this author. His writing skills are phenomenal.<br>> The main character of the book is a gay New York hairdresser who caters to<br>> Mafia wives. Though mostly comedic, the book has a good deal of mystery as<br>> well because of the death of one of his clients, as well as some tampering<br>> of one of his signature beauty products. You will definitely keep turning<br>> the pages to find out who dunnit! There is a car wash scene that is so<br>> descriptively funny that it will be forever ingrained. Every time I see a<br>> car wash, I crack up all over again.<br>> I would say that the gay community will just howl over this book, but<br>> that would leave out everyone else. As a straight midwestern momma, I too<br>> found it just too funny to put down. I would definitely recommend this<br>> book! Unless you have no sense of humor, you will love it!<br>>

With a character named Shtup you can't go wrong

A wild foray into the dysfunctional world of unorganized crime, dysfunctional "there is no m-word" wives, butylated hydroxy toulene and the "ice cube trick". Schreibman should change his name to Scribeman...never has a writer since Robert Braff been able to be so goofy yet so entertaining. One gets the idea somewhere around the third chapter that this literary effort was largely inspired by an author whose exposure to sodium laurel sulfate was a little more than just accidental. Not quite "Moby Dick" (the alternative version by Robert G. Braff) but a lot more fun.