By Harry Crews
“As semimythic, mad-writer-guys pass, simply Cormac McCarthy can rival Georgia-born Harry Crews at the modern American scene.” –Glen Hirshberg, Seattle Weekly
Hickum Looney is decided to win Soaps For Life’s annual revenues contest- and this yr he has an facet. Looney has chanced on that perfect shopper: the proverbial little previous girl, who swallows all his patter, introduces him to all her neighbors, and is helping him fill a list variety of order books. yet sooner than he can declare the Cadillac, the journey to Disney global, and the $2,000 in funds as his personal, Looney needs to take care of the Boss, a guy who outsells his personal salesmen yr after year.
Harry Crews turns the vintage rags-to-riches tale on its head during this hilarious saga of the rigors and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman.
“The Mulching of the USA is the funniest e-book ever written a few door-to-door cleaning soap salesman. not only humorous both. Savage. Dealing hyperbole with either arms. Harry Crews bubbles to the outside back with this kind of satire that makes quick glance slow.” -Dick Roraback, The Washington publish booklet World
“The Florida writer has outfitted a nineteen-book profession via writing—piercingly, sympathetically and not, ever condescendingly—about those who are no longer general within the secure, sanitary experience of the notice. Crews offers them an realizing, humorous voice that jewelry like a burlesque mix of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.” – Jeff Baker, Oregonian
“A roller-coaster-ride of a unique, "neck deep in crazy,” … disgusting and grotesque.” – Kirkus Reviews
From Library Journal
Traveling salesman Hickum Looney has been toiling 25 years with the Soaps for all times corporation to be the simplest salesman within the outfit. After one in particular hi there of door-to-door revenues, Hickum figures he can simply win the once a year Soaps for all times revenues contest. however the Boss, a manic, hare-lipped determine who's half Norman Vincent Peale, half Jim Bakker, and half Adolf Hitler, has regularly received the competition, and he has different plans for Hickum Looney and Soaps for all times. alongside tips on how to status and misfortune, Hickum meets up with the common solid of Crews's misfits: Gaye Nell Odell, a prostitute and karate professional whose skill to shoot a pistol renders one in every of Hickum's enemies toeless; Crews's perennial personality, former bodybuilder Russell Muscle (e.g., physique, 8/90), now the Boss's masseur; and the Boss's chauffeur, Pierre LaFarge, a former convict with unconventional sexual appetites. For a quick second after he and Gaye Nell turn into enthusiasts, Hickum's flame of good fortune sparkles gradually purely to be extinguished by means of the powerful winds of the Boss's corporation plan. At its top, Crews's writing is a two-edged sword that slashes with its razor-thin hilarity whereas cutting open the bottom of the hot South to reveal its depravity and hollowness. This novel is certainly certainly one of his top.
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Cannae stick a cunt thit rips oaf his mates, Lenny snarled. – Whin ye think aboot it though, it's Granty's poppy. He kin spend it oan whit he likes, Jackie said. They looked at him with bemused belligerence. Eventually Lenny spoke. – Away ye fuckin go. – In a wey though, the cunt won it fair n square. Ah ken what we agreed. Build up a big kitty wi the club money tae add a bit ay spice tae the caird games. Then divvi up. Ah ken aw that. Aw ah'm sayin is thit in the eyes ay the law. . Jackie explained his position.
Ah telt ye, ah've goat tae fuckin nash. Me n Lexo pulled a bit ay business oaf. Ah'm sayin nae mair oan the fuckin subject, but it's best ah disappear fir a couple ay weeks. Any polis cunts come tae the door, yuv no seen us fir yonks. Ye think ah'm oan the fuckin rigs, right. Yuv no seen us, mind. – But whair ur ye gaun Frank? Whair ur ye fuckin well gaun? – That's fir me tae ken n you tae find oot. What ye dinnae fuckin well ken they cannae fuckin well beat oot ay ye, ah sais. Then the fuckin boot gits up n starts fuckin screamin it us, saying thit ah cannae jist fuckin go like that.
Cunts that are intae baseball–batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. ah don't hate the English. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation.