Stephen Schneck's Night Clerk is a dark, sad, funny and generally phatasmagoric study of a man's search for salvation through reminiscence and fantasy. Written with a Nabokovian love for language, the book is recommended for readers who appreciate the Coen Brothers Barton Fink, Lolita, Candy, Naked Lunch and Steppenwolf. At one time, Orson Welles was going to play the title character in a film adaptation...ah, those were the days. Last time I looked the Strand bookstore had a few copies of this Grove Press classic.

In the Jean Genet/William Burroughs tradition, this criminal insider's novel of illusion, drugs, abduction, sadomasochistic domination and submission, hallucinatory plot revisions and time warps would be underground even in Haight-Ashbury of the late 60's. It's "Naked Lunch" meets "The Story of O" where reality is illusion and morality is from the Marquis. The decade's best of it's genre, but of such an esoteric genre that it keeps going out of print

My dogs always seem to get sick on Sundays. To take them to a 24 hr clinic, the lowest bill is 150.00 in cash only! This book has reassured me, allowed me to wait until Monday morning, my animals are safer and so is my wallet!
I had a dog that developed an anal gland abcess that I noticed on a Sunday early evening. I took her temp and it was only slightly elevated, while I thought about what to do, within an hr of notice, it ruptured. I got this book out, it told me how to flush it with peroxide and allowed me to wait until the following morning to call the Vet. When I got to the vet, all he had to do was examine it and give antibiotics. My dog was not septic nor did she even have an elevated temp.
Before you panic, get this book! I highly recommend it.