Wake Up and Smell the Beer

By Jon Longhi

Cover art by R. Crumb In this uproarious novel, ridiculous characters emerge from San Francisco's counter-cultural underground to unleash their melancholy and psycho-drama on an unsuspecting world. Poets and vampires, drag queens and performance artists, musicians and strippers co-mingle throughout a yearlong hangover. Where will it end? Is there a 12-step programme for these extreme cases? Longhi's ability to render distinctly memorable characters and zero in on subterranean absurdity keeps the reader laughing throughout.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916397831
• ISBN13: 9780916397838
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Manic D Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A psychedelic rave-up of a novel

It might help you to follow the narrative of this novel composed of weird anecdotal episodes if you've altered your consciousness at some point in your life because this book doesn't have a traditional plot line... but there's definitely a story here. Often laugh out loud funny and sometimes just plain creepy and gross, Longhi can turn a phrase on a dime.