Chester Pomeroy is a washed-up rock star turned casualty of illicit substances and kamikaze passion. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester’s story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero. Out of his struggle to rejoin the human race -- and the imminent possibility that he may die trying -- McGuane has fashioned a harrowing and hilarious novel of "alligators, macadam, the sea, sticky sex, laughter, and sudden death."
- ISBN10 0749390611
- ISBN13 9780749390617
- Publish Date 5 April 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Minerva
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 142
- Language English