Angel Strings Author:Gary Eberle A road-trip book for the 90s, a westward journey through the surreal landscape of the postmodern world. — Guitarist Joe Findlay is heading from Porkville, Ohio, to New York City for the audition that could be his big break. He hadn't counted on running into Violet Tansy, a hitchhiker desperate to get to San Diego to meet her submariner boyfri... more »end, who may or may not be the father of the baby she's carrying in a cardboard box. (The baby may also be the kidnapped Baby Jeffrey, subject of a nationwide media frenzy.)
Against Joe's better judgment, they head west in his beat-up old van, meeting an outlandish assortment of delightful characters, including Violet's Grandpa Tolliver, who gives Joe an enchanted guitar; Fagan the Pagan, distributor of mystical inanities and unicorn dust; Rahu, a Tibetan monk with an insatiable craving for McDonald's french fries; Joe's wife, Hazel, who has converted one of Joe's songs into a soporific New Age hit; and assorted angels, gurus, and computer geeks. « less