Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

By Greg Kramer

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.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896332021
• ISBN13: 9781896332024
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Cormorant Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Another great book

I love this book because it has subject matter not commenly found, and yet, keeps things to where almost anyone can follow the book and enjoy it.

Words to trip over

Liner notes and back-cover blurbs are really just terrible things--they impose a mood, drive away readers, and draw in a pre-selected potential audience...and are most often gushy paragraphs of nonsensical blather. Those slapped on the back of this book are no exception to my sweeping generalisation, hence I have taken it up as my duty to spread the sensical blather: Couchwarmer is superfine; a book you see as you read; a story that has kept me up past my bedtime three nights running. I live in the city in which it is set, which is a giggly thrill to Canadians (who are sorely under-represented in literary neighbourhoods), but I can assure any reader that they, too, will see the streets and the slush and muck and yuck through which the protagonist wades as if it were just around the corner.