Bruce Hanna

Comedy of Turmoil (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

HUGH JANUS is an obscure stand-up comedian working in a dump of a nightclub like an old time Humphrey Bogart movie set. His story is a non-conformist comedy of erotic self-indulgence and violently interwoven relationships around him. Humiliated by his wife and bullied by his boss, Janus's scandalous performances win him success and infamy in a blaze of betrayal, drugs, sex, violence and murder.

Finding a gun against his head is nothing new to Janus. His life is an erratic and erotic search for artistic meaning and personal truth. Janus weaves a dangerous self-indulgent path through violent turmoil often of his own making. His domineering wife Deanna resents his dependence on her money and he resents her. She is a mysteriously powerful woman with international connections. She debases him and she punishes him when necessary; and she saves him from trouble when she must. He is a pain in the arse, but he's her pain in the arse. She tries to force Janus to give up show biz and get a normal job. In despair Deanna seeks satisfaction in an affair with her psychiatrist while Janus carries on a number of secret liaisons with the nightclub's staff, his mistress and prostitutes. It seems a perfect marriage in some ways.

Janus must conceal his relationship with Daisy the wild-eyed exotic dancer in the nightclub. Daisy is the lifelong friend of Deanna, and the mistress of the jealous nightclub boss. Eighty year-old Henri Kaye is a sadistic and conniving old-school gangster, troubled by sexual dysfunction and ill-health. Boss Henri plagues Janus with comedy advice and wartime nostalgia from the holocaust.

The turbulent tale of Janus is a comedy in honor of the soul's need to belong and the ego's craving for attention, with ambiguities of love and lust - the simple gravity that holds people together as they fall apart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bruce Hanna
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370474127
• Artikelnr.: 48182965

Autorenporträt

"I'm not considered a proper writer in literary circles. My stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect on the windscreen of a speeding vehicle, straight from the gut, with a bit of heart and brain-juice in the mix."

"Each New Year I see fireworks exploding over cities round the World. I can't tell if they are celebrating the bombing of Hanoi, Bagdad, Ukraine, or Gaza, or somewhere else next."

"Pity the untold victims of Victory's sins, pieceworkers on the process-line of revenge, pawns in a game of Lose Your Way to the End, where all is concealed behind the shield of bloodstains, bullet-holes & election posters..." - The Slow Motion Murder of Julian Assange.

"My life went on for two seasons and ten episodes before I realised, I'd seen it all before."

"Behind my back one of the Communist Party big shots muttered, When you see him coming, tell your ears to run."

"People crack up the minute I walk in the door. I can't see what they're laughing for. Was it something I forgot to not say? Too bad..." - Mad Dog on Crazy Street.

"You can't make a peace sign when you're wearing a boxing glove." - Anthem for the 21st Century.

"My neighbour believed in the afterlife. She often said, the best place to pick-up a good man is down at the morgue. I thought she was joking, till I turned up at her wedding. She asked what I thought of her fiancée? I said, "To be sure, he's a cool looking dude. But how come he's naked? And why is that baggage ticket tied round his big toe?"

"After growing-up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, I became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to my refusal to collaborate in the US-led axis-of-evil against Vietnam. I was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government. But I got no medal as an anti-war Vet."

"While on the run, my writing and cartoons first appeared on fringes of the Australian press, continuing in The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune, Overland and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of poetry, in an illustrated homage Suicide Circus, in PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999), and my first novel, Fatal Moments (published by Angus & Robertson in 1987)."

"Peter Bowler (Canberra Times) remarked on the "delicious thread of dry humour r...