Gyre Straits eBook Stephen Winter
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What’s a developer to do when a tribe of protected voles is squatting on his prime view-parcel and claiming adverse possession? If the developer is Malum Pistern, the answer is plenty. But these aren’t ordinary voles, and Malum has a slew of other problems including his wife-slash-benefactress, a father-in-law who wants to have him horse-whipped (and that’s the least of it), an ambitious mayor needing campaign cash, a lawyer who acquires one bad case of morality, and a local opposition that may do whatever it takes to stop him.
There’s loads of sex, weird and otherwise, courtroom hilarity you’ll never find in Grisham, songs, poems, a brash female marijuana plant (that quotes Blake), a send-up of politicos, the legal industry, innovation & progress, medical examiners, hydrologists, judges, more lawyers, Malum’s genealogy, Cognitive Dissonance Theory, late night talk-show hosts, the household of three, performance art, Black Ops . . . and maximally more in this darkly wacky novel that never stops pushing beyond the bounds of good taste in search of a good laugh and a way to prevent a maniacal developer from destroying all diversity and beauty.
Gyre Straits eBook Stephen Winter
What if Rabelais, Thomas Pynchon and John Kennedy Toole sat in on a municipal zoning meeting in a hot real estate market--and blogged madly about the surreal proceedings? Gyre Straits--self-published, unexpurgated and gleefully over-the-top--might result. Stephen Winter's satire on the skills and skullduggery of California real estate (sure seems to be Marin County) opens with a hideous tide of endangered rodents--voles--which will become the sinister bio-weapons of protagonist Malum Pistern, a rapacious developer with the moral fiber of an even lower species. Say...paramecium. As a main character, Malum is about as appealing as Toole's psycho-flatulant Ignatius in A Confederacy of Dunces. But hey--if Donald Trump is a top dog in the field, Pistern is an appropriately repulsive bottom-feeder.Readers craving the simple declarative sentence beware--passages plunge, snap and twist with the fiendish elan of a tightly cinched bronc. But those able to stay aboard past the ten second bell will surely reap some chuckles and I-been-there-brother aha's.
As satire, Gyre Straits is a timely whiff of sulfur redolent of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. More than ever, real estate can be a devilish enterprise that brings out the worst in all who tread a sought-after patch of ground. Winter has clearly been there--the municipal and corporate venalities that drive the dense, bristling plot are too diabolical to be mere fiction. And clearly, he's come out of this bizarro world bloodied and bent on revenge.
As a work of fiction, Winter's gimlet-eyed immorality play is like that one-of-a-kind, crenelated and quirky casa some dreamer has built on the most stunning promontory in town. The "conventional buyer"--those bleating the holy trinity of granite/stainless/hardwood--will beat it back to the car before the realtor can open the lockbox. The more adventurous will feel immediately at home--and pay happily for the dizzying view.
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Gyre Straits eBook Stephen Winter Reviews
What if Rabelais, Thomas Pynchon and John Kennedy Toole sat in on a municipal zoning meeting in a hot real estate market--and blogged madly about the surreal proceedings? Gyre Straits--self-published, unexpurgated and gleefully over-the-top--might result. Stephen Winter's satire on the skills and skullduggery of California real estate (sure seems to be Marin County) opens with a hideous tide of endangered rodents--voles--which will become the sinister bio-weapons of protagonist Malum Pistern, a rapacious developer with the moral fiber of an even lower species. Say...paramecium. As a main character, Malum is about as appealing as Toole's psycho-flatulant Ignatius in A Confederacy of Dunces. But hey--if Donald Trump is a top dog in the field, Pistern is an appropriately repulsive bottom-feeder.
Readers craving the simple declarative sentence beware--passages plunge, snap and twist with the fiendish elan of a tightly cinched bronc. But those able to stay aboard past the ten second bell will surely reap some chuckles and I-been-there-brother aha's.
As satire, Gyre Straits is a timely whiff of sulfur redolent of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. More than ever, real estate can be a devilish enterprise that brings out the worst in all who tread a sought-after patch of ground. Winter has clearly been there--the municipal and corporate venalities that drive the dense, bristling plot are too diabolical to be mere fiction. And clearly, he's come out of this bizarro world bloodied and bent on revenge.
As a work of fiction, Winter's gimlet-eyed immorality play is like that one-of-a-kind, crenelated and quirky casa some dreamer has built on the most stunning promontory in town. The "conventional buyer"--those bleating the holy trinity of granite/stainless/hardwood--will beat it back to the car before the realtor can open the lockbox. The more adventurous will feel immediately at home--and pay happily for the dizzying view.
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