Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Will Clarke (Author), William Dufris (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Lord Vishnu's Love Handles is the story of a man who is teetering on the edge of financial ruin and insanity until a couple of secret agents teach him what it really means to lose his mind.Travis Anderson has a psychic gift. Or so he thinks. So far he's milked his premonitions only to acquire an upper-middle-class lifestyle - pretty wife, big house, and a shiny Range Rover - without having to make any real effort. But recent visions threaten his yuppie contentment. Haunted by omens of impending cancers, stillborn babies, and personal train wrecks, he is compelled to make a series of inaccurate and horrifying prophecies that humiliate him in front of his fellow country club members. The IRS gets Travis's number, too, demanding an audit of his sloppy bookkeeping.Drowning in mounting financial problems and apparent mental illness, Travis tries booze, pills, even golf to stay afloat, but nothing works. His wife and friends are forced to stage an intervention. Travis is in danger of losing his family, his career, and ultimately, his sanity. That is, until he meets a Hindu holy man in rehab who claims to be the final incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Suddenly, the tragically shallow Travis is saddled with the responsibility of bettering mankind and saving the world.

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About the Author

William Dufris began his audio career doing radio plays, audiobooks, film/animation dubbing, and language tapes in London, where he lived for thirteen years. While there, he had the honor of sharing the microphone in a number of BBC Radio plays with Kathleen Turner, Sharon Gless, Stockard Channing, and Helena Bonham-Carter. These experiences led him to cofound two audio production companies: The Story Circle Ltd. and Mind's Eye Productions. He has also acted on stage and television in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. William is the original voice of Bob (and Farmer Pickles/Mr. Beasley/Mr. Sabatini) in the popular children's show Bob the Builder for the United States and Canada (Series 1–9). He produces, directs, acts and engineers for his audio theatre company, Rocky Coast Radio Theatre. He has been nominated nine times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award and has garnered twenty-one Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which also named him one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century, as well as one of the Best Voices of the Year in 2008 and 2009.

From AudioFile

Travis Anderson's psychic abilities have allowed him to enjoy an upwardly mobile lifestyle--but then everything begins to fall apart. Travis tries chemically altering his reality but finds himself hallucinating in deeper, paranoid waters. William Dufris gives an energetic performance as the deluded, financially desperate, eventually detoxing Travis. Dufris's version of the Hindu holy man Travis meets in rehab is priceless, and his interpretation of assorted government agents is nicely nutty. Even with an overly contrived climax, Will Clarke might just make it into the Wackiest Writer on the Planet Sweepstakes with this debut novel, and Dufris's deliciously wild and witty narration exactly fits its manic mood. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400101751
• ISBN-13: 978-1400101757
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,419,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Will Clarke doesn't want you to know where he lives or what he's doing next. (Which totally begs the question, why does he maintain an eponymous blog?)

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5.0 out of 5 stars hillarious, July 6, 2009

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This review is from: Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of) (Audio CD)

This is one of the funniest writers I have ever read, and this is one of his best!