Mortal Belladaywic

by Mark Christensen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385237634
• ISBN13: 9780385237635
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 300 Pages

Customer Reviews

A fun novel

I read this novel when it came out, when I lived in Portland and (oddly) worked at the address where the protagonist's house is located. After 23 years I don't remember the plot exactly, but I remember many subplots and situations clearly. In the first chapter, the protagonist, a congressman's son, is on Army Reserve maneuvers with the unit he commands, which drives Sherman tanks and he wonders why his is the only unit in the entire army that still has World War Two era tanks. Of course, the reader figures out that the father had money earmarked so his son could play with tanks. Through the rest of the book the 34-year-old hero is still a kid, playing at being an adult, and having a lot of fun. He and his housemates have an annual party called "House of a 1000 Snacks" in which they go to the gourmet supermarket and buy a bag or box of every snack food available. My housemate loved this idea! The protagonist is an attorney and his only client seems to be his girlfriend's kid brother, a punk rocker names Joey S***head who is about to be executed for murder, who cares only about filing a lawsuit against another punk rocker who also performs under the name Joey S***head. And the line where the overweight protagonist refers to his midsection as "Melvin Belly" (a lawyer joke). The book had me laughing!