This novel does everything that a novel can do--Joycean in its range--while remaining utterly realistic and so funny you could die. Best to read on a solitary vacation--if not you will alienate anyone you are with by insisting on reading aloud longer and longer passages.

"Why don't you fart? A wise man farts when mortality sniffs his a**hole."

The above is some of the stunning prose from the author. This book is unreadable. It's full of senseless profanity and ethnic slurs. It reads like something written by an overly-histrionic junior high school skinhead-in-training with delusions of grandeur. Do yourself a favor and avoid this book.