Rolling the R's

Praise for Rolling the R's:
"[A] style that combines the comic pitch of a drag queen with crazed, daredevil experimental techniques unseen since the '60s heyday of Terry Southern and Hunter Thompson—all in a dense and startlingly beautiful pidgin dialect. Linmark nails the excitement and terror of being young with a rare and moving accuracy."
— Dennis Cooper, Spin Magazine

"Rolling the R's is a downright funky, hothouse treat."
— Jessica Hagedorn

"Linmark has done more than simply use the argot of equatorial poverty as a sexy, colorful idiom. In its structure, tone, and depths, Rolling the R's is true to the furious and witty rhythms of a vernacular culture of resistance."
— Village Voice Literary Supplement

"R. Zamora Linmark serves up an eccentric and enchanting blend of disco memories, Tiger Beat crushes, and pidgin English in Rolling the R's."
— Out Magazine

Description:
Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks, and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R's come to life against a background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian community. In this daring first novel, tour-de-force experiments in narrative structure, pidgin, and perspective roll every "are", throwing new light on gay identity and the trauma of assimilation. Rolling the R's goes beyond "coming of age" and "coming out" to address the realities of cultural confusion, prejudice, and spiraling levels of desire in humorous yet haunting portrayals that are, as Matthew Stadler writes, "stylish, shameless, and beautiful."

Details:
$12.95 | 150pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781885030030