Odditorium

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>A delirious noir carousel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Odditorium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> plunges the reader into a feverish world where every scheme collapses sideways and nothing lands where it's aimed. Broun's precise prose ricochets between grit and slapstick stitching together crooked side-hustles and warped ambitions amidst a gallery of grifters washed-up boozers and accidental accomplices. A pulpy feverish dream wheelin' and dealin' in women's softball and drug deals gone bad from Tangier to Cartagena to the seedy underbelly of 1980s America propelled by Broun's smart dialogue and unerring instinct for derailment.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Odditorium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> was Broun's first novel originally published in 1983 by Harper & Row but out of print ever since (except for an ebook release by Open Road Media). After releasing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Odditorium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> Broun underwent spinal surgery that saved his life but left him paralyzed from the neck down.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>The heroine of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Odditorium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> is Tildy Soileau a professional softball player stuck in a down-and-out marriage in South Florida. Leaving her husband to his own boozy inertia she jumps at the chance to travel to New York with Jimmy Christo only recently released from a mental institution and make some much-needed cash on a drug deal. Adventure is just as much a motivating force though and Tildy quickly gets involved with a charismatic drug dealer; meanwhile in carrying out business Jimmy is dangerously sidetracked in Tangier. By the time the two are back in Florida a financial boon greets them but here too trouble is in the wings. Formally daring and full of jolts of the unexpected </span><em style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Odditorium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(243 243 243 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> is an addictive romp through shady realms.-Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p></p>