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The Christopher Park Regulars
The misadventures of a motley group of artists making their way in New York City
A misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. Here they share their hopes, dreams, and memories (and in the case of the abnormally obsessed C.C. Wake, an irrational fear of earthquakes), as they wait to become famous.
Andrew T. Andrews left a fancy home, job, and wife behind to struggle downtown as a starving writer and has now almost finished his third book on his best subject: himself. Maria la Hija de Jes�s has also come a long way from where she started--when she was a he--to become a bona fide off-off Broadway star . . . when she isn't spending time in a senior citizen home taking the residents on fantasy excursions to Europe. And then there's the rice cereal heir, the High Fiber Man, watching helplessly in horror as his mother fritters away his inheritance.
Author Edward Swift's love of endearing eccentrics, rebels, and oddballs has been well documented in such acclaimed novels as Splendora, Principia Martindale, and A Place with Promise. Now he brings the sideshow from the dust of East Texas to the hustle and bustle of New York City, chronicling the struggles of his irrepressible Regulars in a story that is funny, sad, and totally outrageous.
A misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. Here they share their hopes, dreams, and memories (and in the case of the abnormally obsessed C.C. Wake, an irrational fear of earthquakes), as they wait to become famous.
Andrew T. Andrews left a fancy home, job, and wife behind to struggle downtown as a starving writer and has now almost finished his third book on his best subject: himself. Maria la Hija de Jes�s has also come a long way from where she started--when she was a he--to become a bona fide off-off Broadway star . . . when she isn't spending time in a senior citizen home taking the residents on fantasy excursions to Europe. And then there's the rice cereal heir, the High Fiber Man, watching helplessly in horror as his mother fritters away his inheritance.
Author Edward Swift's love of endearing eccentrics, rebels, and oddballs has been well documented in such acclaimed novels as Splendora, Principia Martindale, and A Place with Promise. Now he brings the sideshow from the dust of East Texas to the hustle and bustle of New York City, chronicling the struggles of his irrepressible Regulars in a story that is funny, sad, and totally outrageous.
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First published June 1, 1989
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
February 9, 2022
I enjoyed several of Edwards Swifts earlier books and I highly recommend this one. It is a group of short stories connected by all the eccentric characters who hang out in Christopher Street Park in the heart of Greenwich Village. Some of the stories are sad, one or two border on crime but most are hilarious and laugh out loud funny like the drag queen putting on a show in a nursing home.
July 11, 2016
Swift is an excellent writer. This is a funny, poignant story of several people whose main connection is their use of a small public park in New York. Swift is excellent at making his characters funny and sympathetic, quirky and lovable, all at the same time.
September 5, 2008
An interesting and delightfully convoluted tale with Swift's usual cast of entertaining misfits.
April 19, 2015
Quirky and off-beat. A fun read.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews