2009 Longlist
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A rabid grotesquery. Even though: this is a veritable masterpiece a morality play on life of today.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Doubleday (USA)
Nominating Library
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