The Big Bamboozle: A Burlesque Novel

By Hal C. Sisson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894012038
• ISBN13: 9781894012034
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Salal Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A hundred bawdy laughs and a serious environmental message

The Big Bamboozle is a fresh menagerie of a book that serves up a serious environmental message with a hundred bawdy laughs and a close look at one of the earth's most fascinating creatures.It mixes a moth-eaten, audience-worn, baggy-pants comic together with an intellectual Great Ape and throws in a Night Club Stripper -- officially known as an ecclysiast.What stands out in this new work by Hal Sisson is the way this writer crawls inside the heads of his disparate cast of characters. Dwart is a waning stand-up comic running out of steam and self-esteem. Affronting problems he talks his way out of trouble by using old jokes the way a lawyer accesses old court rulings. Sisson tackles the thoughts and feelings of the Great Apes themselves. He maintains pace, readability and tension throughout the book, while steadily satisfying our voyeuristic desire to learn more about the Great Creature. Its plot plunges ahead, when Bamboozle's life is in danger from a hot-headed human. This low-life has a hilarious hair-brained reason to want to kill the beast.All told, a refreshing, original work.