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Island of the Sequined
Love Nun |
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A pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation -- a hopeless geek
trapped in a cool guy's body -- Tucker Case's troubles begin one very
drunk morning at the Seattle airport Holiday Inn Lounge. Surrendering
to the strident will of a call girl who wants desperately to join the
Mile High Club, he proceeds to crash his shocking pink jet on the
runway -- totaling the plane and seriously damaging the organ that got
him into this mess in the first place. Now, with his flying license
revoked, his job and manhood demolished, facing a possible prison term
or, worse, the murderous wrath of Mary Jean Dobbins and her corporate
goons, Tuck has to run for his life toward the only employment
opportunity left for him: piloting a Lear jet for a shady medical
missionary and a sexy, naturally blond High Priestess on the remotest
of Micronesian island hells.
But first he has to get there, encountering spies, cannibals,
journalists, and would-be bitch goddesses every step of the way.
Traveling with his Filipino transvestite navigator and a fruit bat
companion, Roberto, Tuck braves shark-infested waters and a typhoon
before reaching the dark heart of a tropical paradise -- all before
his first day of work.
A delightfully offbeat look at cargo cults, religious zeal, and
pyramid schemes, Island of the Sequined Love Nun is Christopher
Moore at his hilarious best. |
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"Chris Moore has spent a good deal of time in the more remote
areas of the South Pacific, that much is clear. Beyond the impressive
on-site research, however, this raunchy, laugh-a-minute roller coaster
of a book is almost impossible to describe. If it were a movie, it
might be billed something like this: Indiana Jones played by Groucho
Marx, screenplay by Edgar Allen Poe, based on a story by Robert Ludlum
and Stephen King. Co-starring talented newcomer, Roberto, the Talking
Fruit Bat." |
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-- Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My
Flesh and Pass the Butterworms |
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"Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of
the word. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is so delightfully
warped and funny that no sane person could've written it." |
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-- Carl Hiaasen, author of Strip Tease
and Stormy Weather |
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"Funny, offbeat and original, Island of the Sequined Love Nun is a
delightful read. Christopher Moore is a born storyteller." |
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-- Nicholas Spark, author of The Notebook
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| Now available everywhere, from Avon Books:
ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN |
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