![]() Things change when she gets a phone calls from a brusque, authoritative man named Will. She's kind of trashy, but she's OK with it. ![]() She has a bad dye job, horrible taste in clothing and pants that are a lot tighter in the rear end now than they were when she bought them. Zoey is a likable young woman: headstrong, independent and plainspoken. She knows little about her father, except that he abandoned her pregnant mother, tried to win Zoey's affection years before with a ridiculously luxurious car (that she turned down) and is something of a crook. The book centers on Zoey Ashe, a 20-something barista who lives with her mother and a cat named Stench Machine in a run-down trailer park. ![]() “Futuristic Violence” is a more complete novel, combining the best aspects of the other books with a well-paced, action-packed yet philosophical narrative that builds to a satisfying and well-considered conclusion. His characters were as memorable as they were implausible, even if his tales were longer on imagery than they were on plot. ![]() With those first novels, Wong (the pen name of executive editor Jason Pargin) established himself as a witty, cynical writer with a knack for the absurd. “Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits” by David Wong (Thomas Dunne Books, 384 pages, in stores)įans of David Wong's previous novels - “John Dies at the End” and “This Book Is Full of Spiders” - will find much to love about his new stand-alone novel, “Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits,” which is set about 20 or 30 years from now. ![]()
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