Synergy – Your Prescription for Reading?
Alright true believers and truth speakers! Today, BookSpotCentral is kicking off the first of a new monthly feature we are calling Synergy. Basically, one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out and get talented outsiders who choose to become BSC extended [...]
Contest – Couch by Benjamin Parzybok (2 copies!)
Today I have a couple of copies of the debut from Benjamin Parzybok, Couch, released this month from Small Beer Press (who puts nothing but good books out). Earlier this week I posted our exclusive excerpt (some 10k words) from Couch for readers to sample! Synopsis: COUCH. A novel. An odyssey. An epic furniture removal. [...]
Exclusive – Couch by Benjamin Parzybok (excerpt!)
BookSpot Central is the online home for sweet exclusive content for the bibliophiles and here for you right after post-Halloween festivities we bring you a piece of the latest from one of my favorite publishers – Small Beer Press! Today I have for you a good portion (about 10k words) of the beginning of Couch, the debut novel by Benjamin Parzybok. Couch was published this month by Small Beer Press and Publishers Weekly sounded off on it with:
“Delightfully lighthearted writing. . . . Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the enthusiastic prose carries readers through sporadic dark moments . . . Parzybok’s quirky humor recalls the flaws and successes of early Douglas Adams.”
Synopsis:
COUCH. A novel. An odyssey. An epic furniture removal. A road trip. An exuberant and hilarious debut in which an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations. Couch is the first debut novel Small Beer has plucked from the slush pile.
Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off base.
After a freak accident floods their apartment, the three are evicted—but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem? The couch—huge and orange—won’t let them put it down. Soon the roommates are off on a cross-country trek along back roads, byways, and rail lines, heading far out of Portland and deep into one very weird corner of the American dream.
You can learn more about the book at its page at Small Beer or at Mr. Parzybok’s journal including his book tour information.
I want to thank both the author and Small Beer Press for allowing BookSpot Central to offer the following sample to our readers!
Please check out our other exclusives for more chapters from novels and complete short stories from collections and anthologies to sample!
I hope you enjoy!
