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Title: The Pink Bus
Author: Christopher Kelly
Narrator: Kevin Lusignolo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-17
Publisher: Lethe Press
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A month before Election Day, the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Texas--a gay reality television star named Patrick Francis Monaghan--takes to the stage to deliver a speech. Before the candidate can begin, he is shot twice in the stomach. As doctors work to save him, the listener is taken on a touching journey through the preceding 40 years of Patrick's life. Through a tight and appealing cast of characters, we see Patrick navigate what it is to be a gay man--and a public figure--in our rapidly changing world.
Members Reviews:
Entertaining gay coming-of-age mixed with Texas politics and reality TV
It's rare for a book to touch on so many worlds - Texas politics, New York publishing, reality television, being gay in the 80s, being gay in 2014 - and have so much to say about all of them. From its hilarious opening to its bittersweet climax, The Pink Bus is never boring and just about never goes where you expect. Kicking off with Patrick Monaghan, a long shot gay candidate for an open US Senate seat in Texas, shot by an unknown assassin during the most important speech of his life, Christopher Kelly walks the reader through all the key moments in Patrick's life that led to that improbable moment. A big-hearted story that could have felt stale in another writer's hands consistently entertains thanks to a rich supporting cast of characters and Kelly's pitch-perfect ear for dialogue.
Funny, addictive, believable and cool
With heart, punchy dialogue and some entertaining snark, The Pink Bus is a can't-put-it-down read that resonates for anyone that has gone through a winding coming-out journey -- or just enjoys a mash-up of celebrity and politics that fits perfectly with the 2016 zeitgeist.
A smooth, stylish, believable read.
A smooth, stylish, believable read that traces a fallible politician's short career in the public eye.
Fine literary fiction: funny, melancholic, ambitious, and original
POLITICAL FICTION/GAY FICTION
Christopher Kelly
The Pink Bus
Lethe Press
Paperback, 978-1-59021-613-2 (also available as an ebook), 276 pgs., $20.00
May 18, 2016
Patrick Francis Monaghan, the first out gay man to run for the United States Senate from Texas (âHomosexualis Texas Politicus â something exotic or endangeredâ), steps out onto the front porch of the Fort Worth Stockyard Museum and is shot. As he lies there, in and out of consciousness, he ponders the âcosmic cruelty that here he was dyingâat age forty, just when he had found what had eluded him for so long, a place in the world.â Monaghan experiences a series of flashbacks from his life, beginning in kindergarten at P.S. 42 in Staten Island, New York, where he was called âPeppermint Pattyâ by the other kids, an âepithet [that] would stick to him like gum in a girlâs long hair.â
The Pink Bus by Lambda award winner Christopher Kelly is fine literary fiction. Itâs funny and melancholic in turn, but always ambitious and original. Kelly is a multitalented writer. Heâs equally at home with humor, pathos, and political commentaryâsometimes in the same sentence. After the shooting, the âAmerican public was shocked, dismayed, for a few days, deeply ashamed of itself.â This is not easy to do, folks.
Kelly makes good use of the history of assassination and attempted assassination in the United States, beginning with John F.
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Title: The Pink Bus
Author: Christopher Kelly
Narrator: Kevin Lusignolo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-17
Publisher: Lethe Press
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A month before Election Day, the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Texas--a gay reality television star named Patrick Francis Monaghan--takes to the stage to deliver a speech. Before the candidate can begin, he is shot twice in the stomach. As doctors work to save him, the listener is taken on a touching journey through the preceding 40 years of Patrick's life. Through a tight and appealing cast of characters, we see Patrick navigate what it is to be a gay man--and a public figure--in our rapidly changing world.
Members Reviews:
Entertaining gay coming-of-age mixed with Texas politics and reality TV
It's rare for a book to touch on so many worlds - Texas politics, New York publishing, reality television, being gay in the 80s, being gay in 2014 - and have so much to say about all of them. From its hilarious opening to its bittersweet climax, The Pink Bus is never boring and just about never goes where you expect. Kicking off with Patrick Monaghan, a long shot gay candidate for an open US Senate seat in Texas, shot by an unknown assassin during the most important speech of his life, Christopher Kelly walks the reader through all the key moments in Patrick's life that led to that improbable moment. A big-hearted story that could have felt stale in another writer's hands consistently entertains thanks to a rich supporting cast of characters and Kelly's pitch-perfect ear for dialogue.
Funny, addictive, believable and cool
With heart, punchy dialogue and some entertaining snark, The Pink Bus is a can't-put-it-down read that resonates for anyone that has gone through a winding coming-out journey -- or just enjoys a mash-up of celebrity and politics that fits perfectly with the 2016 zeitgeist.
A smooth, stylish, believable read.
A smooth, stylish, believable read that traces a fallible politician's short career in the public eye.
Fine literary fiction: funny, melancholic, ambitious, and original
POLITICAL FICTION/GAY FICTION
Christopher Kelly
The Pink Bus
Lethe Press
Paperback, 978-1-59021-613-2 (also available as an ebook), 276 pgs., $20.00
May 18, 2016
Patrick Francis Monaghan, the first out gay man to run for the United States Senate from Texas (âHomosexualis Texas Politicus â something exotic or endangeredâ), steps out onto the front porch of the Fort Worth Stockyard Museum and is shot. As he lies there, in and out of consciousness, he ponders the âcosmic cruelty that here he was dyingâat age forty, just when he had found what had eluded him for so long, a place in the world.â Monaghan experiences a series of flashbacks from his life, beginning in kindergarten at P.S. 42 in Staten Island, New York, where he was called âPeppermint Pattyâ by the other kids, an âepithet [that] would stick to him like gum in a girlâs long hair.â
The Pink Bus by Lambda award winner Christopher Kelly is fine literary fiction. Itâs funny and melancholic in turn, but always ambitious and original. Kelly is a multitalented writer. Heâs equally at home with humor, pathos, and political commentaryâsometimes in the same sentence. After the shooting, the âAmerican public was shocked, dismayed, for a few days, deeply ashamed of itself.â This is not easy to do, folks.
Kelly makes good use of the history of assassination and attempted assassination in the United States, beginning with John F.