LAFAYETTE, Colo., July 6, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In this zany satire, when the White House escalates the War on Drugs by launching the "Great Roundup" to intern all stoners from political swing states, the administration is out-smarted by Flea and his band of freewheelers who take over the internment camps and convert them into "social experiments." But even Flea and company are outdone by the Devil's Tower when that celebrated Wyoming mountain moves east toward the nation's capital. No one knows what the mountain wants until its rumbly language is translated into English by the Middle Earthers, immortal geniuses who have created an underground utopia in abandoned coal mines. The geniuses discover that the Devil's Tower is making an outrageous but non-negotiable demand of the United States President.
Flea Circus is populated with many characters as wacky as Flea himself-characters like THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD with her multiple personalities, mischievous Jack Nicholson, a dead ringer for the actor of the same name, hardnosed U.S. Secretary of Defense "Crummy" Strudel, upwardly mobile Assistant-to-the-U.S.-Vice-President Hooter Lippy and his glamazon intern Babs, shell-shocked Nam vet Seth Pincus, the philandering Reverend Wilbert Groan of Christ's Own Evangelical Church, plain-talking Amishman Elijah, and a young woman, Zelda Peters, named for and with the over-the-top personality of the original 1920s flapper, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
An offbeat story with strange twists and a unique ending, Flea Circus is sure to amuse and delight readers young and old. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
COOPER has published short stories, humor pieces and essays in a variety of magazines, as well as a book of nonfiction humor with Penguin. As for novels, in addition to Flea Circus the author has written three: Mister Right, a bawdy novel of Internet adventure, the zany character novel Tex, and Flight from Ann Arbor, a suspense novel about bioterrorism. COOPER graduated from the University of California-Berkeley and now lives in Colorado.
Flea Circus * by Cooper
A Zany Novel About a Marijuana Crackdown and a Moving Mountain
Publication Date: June 27, 2009
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