Violencia!: A Musical Novel

by Bruce Jay Friedman

Bruce Jay Friedman is the reigning don of the ironic comic novel, a man of whom The New York Times has written, His writing is so funny -- and deceptively effortless -- critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine. Now he triumphantly returns to the form with Violencia!, a crackling satire of show-business pomposity, flimflam, and dreck in the spirit of Mel Brooks's The Producers. Paul Gurney is a struggling civilian clerk working the desk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802138756
• ISBN13: 9780802138750
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"