Octavius the 1st

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Admirers of Gaylord Brewer's dark and lyrical poetry will be delightfully stunned by this frantic detour into fiction, Octavius the 1st. Against a backdrop of dog walking and the bloated throat sac of the male siamang gibbon, through a gauntlet of good ole home cookin' and the beatific lunch specials of the deli Cheeses Christ, to a soundtra

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Octavius the 1st is Gaylord Brewer's first novel, and it's clearly his best yet. It's also almost everybody else's best yet. Octavius is the funny, poignant, beautifully written tale of a 30-something man who lives with his mother and grandmother and a constipated pug, and of the albino girl he loves. If this ain't the Great American Novel, it's close enough for country dancin'.

--Kinky Friedman