Whispering Bodies: A Roy Belkin Disaster

A San Francisco shut-in is forced to leave his apartment to investigate the murder of his maintenance...
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Author: Jesse Michaels
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Whispering Bodies: A Roy Belkin Disaster by Michaels, Jesse

Whispering Bodies: A Roy Belkin Disaster

$40.36

Whispering Bodies: A Roy Belkin Disaster

$40.36
Author: Jesse Michaels
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A San Francisco shut-in is forced to leave his apartment to investigate the murder of his maintenance man in this "offbeat mystery that, at its heart, is an in-depth character study (Foreword Reviews).

At forty-seven, balding, and mildly agoraphobic, Internet troll Roy Belkin is a man without direction. He rarely leaves his apartment (he refers to the outside world as The Pounding), and when he must leave, he meticulously recounts the day in his Thunder Book; a journal where he lists all that repulsed him that day.

But everything changes the day Belkin returns to his apartment to find the building ablaze along with the suspected murder of the apartment building's maintenance man. As police question him, Belkin meets the mysterious Pernice Balfour, the alluring, religiously obsessed neighbor accused of the crime. Soon, Belkin has no choice but to come out of his shell (and his apartment) to try to clear her name. But the more Belkin investigates, the muddier things become. Wandering through San Francisco's seedy Tenderloin district, Belkin begins to unravel the truth behind the murder, and encounters a bizarre series of characters and situations: "pansexual" crime-scene photographer, an idiot detective, and an all-knowing government operative.

"Whispering Bodies perfectly tangles comedy and pathos. I've talked to a few heads who have compared it to A Confederacy of Dunces, and that makes sense." --The Rumpus

"Jesse Michaels' debut novel is a unique and side-splitting performance, punctuated by a whip smart narrative and magnetic prose. A dizzying combination of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Kurt Vonnegut, if he were a hostile agoraphobic." --Alex Green, Caught in the Carousel

Author: Jesse Michaels
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 09/10/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781593765309


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2013
Foreword 08/31/2013

About the Author
Jesse Michaels is a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and artist from Berkeley, California. Most notably he fronted the band Operation Ivy.

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