Roulette is a joyous and iconoclastic David-and-Goliath tale of outsiders taking on the establishment. Greedy real-estate developers, right-wing Christians and sleazy (Republican) politicos find themselves up against artists, gays, nomads, and over-the-top residents of a shantytown that gains national identity when they refuse to budge to make way for their bulldozers. The town's zany residents include a bald duck, an obsessive-compulsive fat lady who always wears yellow, and a gorgeous Marilyn Monroe-like accident-prone sexpot. As the novel unfolds and the small outpost named Roulette moves from being off the beaten path to front and center of a Presidential election, something quixotic but magical about the nature of America is revealed.
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Outrageous! Hilarious! In-yer-face! --Richard Schneider, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
A unique utopia peopled by loveable grotesques and superqueeroes alike, Roulette is wryly innocent and intensely satirical. A wonderfully rollicking and pointed read. --Kathleen Bryson, author of Girl on a Stick
Since I'm the true star of this book, I think it oughta have me on the cover or, at least, have my name in the title. Whatever happened to old-fashioned courtesy and Goddess worship? --Gwendelynne Faye Smith, Icon and Star
A unique utopia peopled by loveable grotesques and superqueeroes alike, Roulette is wryly innocent and intensely satirical. A wonderfully rollicking and pointed read. --Kathleen Bryson, author of Girl on a Stick
Since I'm the true star of this book, I think it oughta have me on the cover or, at least, have my name in the title. Whatever happened to old-fashioned courtesy and Goddess worship? --Gwendelynne Faye Smith, Icon and Star
About the Author
Adrian Brooks worked for Martin Luther King, was an antiwar activist, on the NY scene with Warhol in Soho in 1970-72, and scriptwriter/star of the legendary free-theater troupe The Angels of Light in San Francisco. His first novel, The Glass Arcade, was published in 1980.
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A Safe Bet,
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The once abandoned town of Roulette comes back to life with a cast of characters that are at once charming, quirky, humorous and just plain odd. Adrian Brooks populates his story with enough subplots and funny detours that you never know where the action is leading.All that guesswork ends in a finale worthy of the finest Moliere farce, that is if Moliere was on acid. You won't want this book to end, it's that funny.
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Love from start to finish!!!,
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This was the most wonderful book I have read in ages. Captured from the first paragraph, i wasn't able to put it down, laughed my head off throughout and i have now recommended this book to anyone who will listen!!!
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