Bøger af P G Sturges

Five days before Christmas, in wintry Chicago, Harry T. Lang loses everything. First, his job, then his wife. Suddenly adrift, Harry takes a job delivering a new, plushly appointed Scenicruiser bus to its new owner, celebrated televangelist Parnassus McGlory. Five days later, arriving in Las Vegas, Harry T. Lang is famous the world over. * * * * *p.g. sturges is a writer, a musician, and an ex-Navy submarine sailor. He makes his home in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Paige, and Georgie, their prized Sturgesian Field Hound. The award-winning work of p.g.sturges has been celebrated by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the PIttsburgh Post-Gazette, the Kansas City Star, Publisher's Weekly, and the Chicago Sun-Times. To name but a few. Now the ball is in your hands.

Linden Thackeray is rich and famous. Michael Quick is not rich and not famous. Set in Hollywood, in the present, our two protagonists separately mine the depths of woe and the heights of happiness. In the end, they solve the ultimate riddle of the universe. ^^^^^Bearing the accolades of Michael Connelly, Elmore Leonard, and Anna Quindlen, Sturges adds some names to his list of his celebrators: "This is the cat's whiskers." - Samuel Clemens. "This gentleman can really tell a story." - Charles Dickens. "He's not as good as me." - Norman Mailer. "A deeply funny read." - Dick Henry.

Michael Chance teaches high school literature to the unwilling and uncaring. But in his chest beats the heart of a writer. That summer, on his vacation, he has promised himself he will complete the Great American Novel. Michael and wife Alison journey to the Oregon coast where they've rented a house. Their landlord is a strange old man who tells Michael the tale of a clock, a Cuckold's Clock, an antique clock that stops if your partner is unfaithful. But who, in these modern times, actually believes in a clock with special powers?

Dick Henry is the Shortcut Man, assisting people with their sticky situations in the belief that the shortest answer to many problems may not always be legal. In "Tribulations of the Shortcut Man," he reluctantly provides assistance to an old girlfriend, pole dancer Pussy Grace.