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Magnificent Vibration: A Novel
Author:
Springfield, Rick
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Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3619.P
Print Run: 100000
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ISBN-13: 9781476758909
LCCN: 2013033160
Imprint: Touchstone
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Pub Date: 05/06/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $24.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
H 9",
W 6",
D 1.1",
0.97 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Humorous Fiction
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FICTION / General
FICTION / Humorous / General
FICTION / Literary
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LC Subjects:
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Americans, Scotland, Fiction
FICTION / Humorous
FICTION / Literary
Humorous fiction
Nuns, Fiction
Religious fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Americans, Scotland, Fiction
Humorous fiction
Nuns, Fiction
Religious fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 01/01/2014 |
| Horatio Cotton steals a book and finds a direct line to God after calling a 1-800 number that leads the man down a road toward enlightenment with a gorgeous nun seeking her own salvation as the two seek answers that could wind up saving their souls...and the world. Debut Novel, 288pp., 100K, Auth res: Malibu, CA, Tour |
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| Booklist | 03/15/2014 |
| Horatio Cotton has been questioning a lot of things lately. After finding out that his wife has been cheating on him with not one, not two, but a veritable Rolodex of strangers, Horatio steals a self-help book to figure out how to rebuild his life. He doesn't expect the 1-800 number scrawled on the inside front cover to be God's personal line, and he certainly doesn't expect to meet up with two other people who have purchased the same book, with the same phone number and the same results. This seemingly benign book was obviously meant to bring Horatio, Alice, and Lexington together, and they set out on a journey that just might answer all of their questions . . . and then some. Musician Springfield, no stranger to the literary world after penning his highly-touted memoir, Late, Late at Night (2010), branches into fiction with this novel. With shades of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) and the clever, self-deprecating wit of Augusten Burroughs and Max Barry, Springfield's highly original work is the rare antidote to the celebrity ghostwritten books often found on today's best-seller lists. Captivating, poignant, and hilarious, Magnificent Vibration proves that some of the most interesting stories can come from pretty unlikely places. Turza, Stephanie. 288p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 02/15/2014 |
| Rock star and soap actor-turned-author Springfield (Late, Late at Night, 2010) debuts with fiction best classified as black comedy. This novel is remarkably creative, for no other reason than Springfield boggles with countless euphemisms for male reproductive organs, masturbation and the act of sexual procreation. Sex, comedy and metaphysics pose a conundrum: Who listens when God speaks? Bobby Cotton for one--hapless nerd, Los Angeles sound editor, recently divorced cuckold. Next it's Alice Young, reluctant religious novitiate, and, finally, Lexington Vargas, prominent Mexican doctor's son and now redeemed gangster. Bobby's life has been an "obsession with the female species and the whole, odd tie to organized religion." Shuttled aside by quarreling parents, Bobby deeply loved his sister, lost first to mental illness and then cancer, the narrative element most emotionally affecting. Fumbling about after his divorce, Bobby steals a self-help book called Magnificent Vibration. Inside is a penciled note: "1-800-Call-God." Bobby dials and becomes convinced he's speaking to God, who in fact prefers to be called Omnipotent Supreme Being but will settle for Arthur. OSB has "a rather incongruous and off-putting sense of humor," which means Bobby complies when told to get a cup of coffee. There, he meets Alice and then Lexington. Both have a copy of the book, and inside each copy is the same telephone number. While Lexington seems flat and present mainly as a plot catalyst, Springfield can write believable characters, his best being Bobby and Alice. The narrative bounces from the present to Bobby's examination of his life and then to conversations with God, who is upset with war and pollution in the universe, all ending in Scotland with Alice, the reluctant nun. Springfield delivers a buckle-your-seat-belts ride, referencing the Loch Ness monster, superheroes, schlock films, Christian fundamentalism, sexual repression, the Pacific garbage patch and existentialist fatalism. A readable comic meditation on human frailty. 288pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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