Buckeye's Ballet
By (Author) William Kamowski
BookBaby
BookBaby
14th June 2018
United States
General
Fiction
Paperback
314
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 22mm
498g
Elected president for his entertainment value, Buckeye keeps the spotlight on the White House. When his Russian cronies propose building a dam across the Bering Strait to reverse global warming, he agrees to champion the collaborative project in exchange for choice seats at Moscows Bolshoi Ballet.Creating the dam is simpleand ominous. Just tap volcanic matter by super fracking deep beneath the sea floor, chill the magma into a wall across the Strait, and ignore the seismic shudders.The Alaska boom town at the Bering Build lures a jumble of opportunists including the madam of a time-share brothel, an old-school bookie from Prague, the first bitch on a globe-trotting TV reality show, and a dysfunctional polar bear. Buckeyes Ballet is satire, farce, and whimsical science fiction cast with quirky comic characters who spoof the world leaders petty agendas.
William Kamowski is a professor of literature at Montana State University in Billings. When he isn't winning converts to the cults of Geoffrey Chaucer and Jane Austen, he is hiking in the Beartooth Mountains with his wife Magdalen, or irking their cat Zoey with dramatic readings of The Cat in the Hat.