Slam

Name: Slam
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Lewis Shiner
ISBN: 9781482932492

Author: Lewis Shiner

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 11/15/2013

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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 Margueritte 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 caretakeror 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 arsonistsa population of dropouts and misfits who will do anything to avoid doing anything.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brent on September 24, 2019

I enjoy Shiner's writing style very much. The subject matter however, was just too cringey. Had to stop.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on July 14, 2016

Picked this up as part of an 8 for a dollar sale at the Friends of the Library bookstore. It got many rave reviews when was published in 1990. Twenty-six years later, it has not aged well. Dave could have been a poster-child for the "Failure to Launch" 39-going-on-40 slacker, except that he's not li......more

Goodreads review by Salgood on January 09, 2013

I first Read Slam in the early 90s and it made a huge impression on me. Still one of my favorite books, i could not recommend it more. Well, no i could. I'm going to make it into a Graphic novel. That's what i said to myself when i first read it, and i'm going to begin adapting the book in Revolver......more

Goodreads review by Allan on April 27, 2012

Lewis Shiner at his typical entertaining peak. Characters are weirder than ever. The prison rapist who really wants to be loved and respected. Slackers, skate-punks, gold diggers, lawyers. Ex-con becomes caretaker for a house with 23 cats and sets his eyes on the proprietors fortune.......more

Goodreads review by bob on February 06, 2021

It's not a very good sign when one of the BEST things you can say about a novel is that it was short! Less than 200 pages, I never really found any sort of identity with this book. To quote the famous line from Jerry Seinfeld " It was a story about nothing". I mean things happened, there was a sort......more