A wild and wacky romp through a small town in Pennsylvania. The characters are an odd bunch of misfits, including a police officer in a wizards cape, an ex-con known as "The Outcast" who has a penchant for holding up hardware stores on donkey-back, a legal secretary who dislikes wearing clothes, and a batty old woman living in an abandoned school.
Boylan writes well. If you like the off beat, you will enjoy this book.
Boylan writes well. If you like the off beat, you will enjoy this book.
Believe it or not, in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a coal fire has been burning underground since 1962. This smoldering ghost town is the setting for James finney Boylan's exhilarating novel, in which a lovelorn skydiver with a faulty parachute sets off a chain of events that will emesh a banker with a thing for shaven heads; a mime who doubles as an office temp; a bandit who robs hardware stores on burroback; and a decrepit Dalmation named Buddy. Filled with gloriously unlikely plot twists and achingly recognizable human beings, THE PLANETS is a comedy of yearning and identity in the traditions of Kurt Vonnegut and John Kennedt O'Toole.
