The Truth

by Geoff Rips

In his debut novel, The Truth, Geoff Rips creates a moral universe in a series of tales narrated by the palsied hunchback Chuy Pingarr n who spends his days on the front porch of a San Antonio whorehouse and is proud to dubbed "the standard of perversion" by those whose stories he tells. Through his twisted perspective we meet the Midwife who is also the house's madam, the philosopher Don Apolo who lives in an iron lung, and Angelita, famous for her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930974736
• ISBN13: 9781930974739
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

For community library fiction collections with a more of an offbeat audience.

A palsied hunchback who rests on the porch of a brothel in Texas. "The Truth" is the award winning novel telling of Chuy Pingarron and his tales of perversion as people stop by just to hear his tales. Midwifes who are Madams of Brothels, iron-lung bound philosophers, famous hands, unwilling saints, among countless other offbeat tales sure to entertain, all in the effort to answer one of the oldest of all of mankind's questions of how is life suppose to be lived and what's the point of it all? "The Truth" is highly recommended for community library fiction collections with a more of an offbeat audience.