Pizza Face Or, the Hero of Suburbia

By Ken Siman

Book Overview

A Holden Caufield with acne vulgaris, Andy is born in North Carolina too late to be a hippy and too early to be a programmer, just in time to live through the Carter administration and the era of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802113982
• ISBN13: 9780802113986
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

wonderfully quirky

I liked this book very much, especially the political humor. Some of the reviews posted here refer to this as a "gay novel," but I think it has more widespead appeal. Residents of suburbia (like myself) or those who harbor aspirations of holding political office will enjoy it if they read with an open mind.

The second funniest book I've ever read

My favorite lazy-man's reading position is on my sofa, totally flat, with a book balanced on enough throw pillows to allow me to see the book without so much as lifting my neck. (This is similar to how people in polio treatment using a mirror suspended over their iron lungs used to read, and it's a little bit of heaven.) I have only read one other book besides "Pizza Face" which was so funny that, in my laugh-convulsions, I dropped the book and nearly rolled off the sofa. This book, of course, was John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." When I dropped "Pizza Face," the corner of the book--I have the dangerous hardcover--hit me in the right eye. It was painful, yes; but worth it for a book this hysterically funny. If you loved David Sedaris's "Barrel Fever" (and didn't like his "Naked" nearly as much)you will hoot over this book.

One of the Best Gay Novels Ever

Ken Siman's PIZZA FACE was one of the first "gay novels" I ever read. It communicates the feeling of being an outsider so poignantly, with humor and razor-sharp perception. It's beautifully written from beginning to end, and will stay with you. I admire this book so much and strongly recommend it.

Laugh-out-loud funny, sad, laser-sharp insight

For anyone coming to terms with homosexuality in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this book is a must. I found myself nodding vigorously over Ken Siman's witty insights and too-close-for comfort descriptions of a confused and vulgar time. Ugly, unfashionable Andy is at once noble and pathetic, dead-on wise and alarmingly naive