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Slam is a bright and acerbic depiction of the slacker culture of Texas and a testament to a lost and found generation. Dave stepped out of Bastrop Federal Prison after a six-month stretch for tax evasion and into the home of one Marguerite Johnson, a.k.a. the Old Lady. The Old Lady passed on, leaving her house and her fortune to her twenty-three cats. But the cats need a caretaker—or so he thinks. There are others with an eye on the Johnson estate, and soon Dave is caught up in a whirlwind of anarchists, gold diggers, skateboard punks, lawyers, hackers, and arsonists—a population of dropouts and misfits who will do anything to avoid doing anything.
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“A beautifully understated comic nightmare aboutan ex-con’s misbegotten attempts to tread the straight and narrow outside theslammer…After a series of plot twists worthy of Thomas Pynchon or Joe Orton…Shinerdoes manage a happy ending as magically unexpected as pulling twenty-three catsout of a hat.”
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“It takes a laid-back squint at reality and then slips into an alternative groove all its own.”
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“Slam is must reading—an anthem—for IRS parolees who skate. For the rest of us it’s just a quirky joy of a novel, one that happens to be thought provoking.”
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“An unqualified delight.”
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“Realism, idealism, and fantasy are skillfully interwoven into a novel of personal adjustment and rebellion.”
— Library Journal
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About Lewis Shiner
Lewis Shiner is the award-winning author of the novels Dark Tangos, Say Goodbye, and Glimpses, among others. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
About Stefan Rudnicki
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.