Home > Fiction > Fiction: special features > Short stories > Too Weird for Ziggy
23%
Too Weird for Ziggy

Too Weird for Ziggy

          
5
4
3
2
1

International Edition


Premium quality
Premium quality
Bookswagon upholds the quality by delivering untarnished books. Quality, services and satisfaction are everything for us!
Easy Return
Easy return
Not satisfied with this product! Keep it in original condition and packaging to avail easy return policy.
Certified product
Certified product
First impression is the last impression! Address the book’s certification page, ISBN, publisher’s name, copyright page and print quality.
Secure Checkout
Secure checkout
Security at its finest! Login, browse, purchase and pay, every step is safe and secured.
Money back guarantee
Money-back guarantee:
It’s all about customers! For any kind of bad experience with the product, get your actual amount back after returning the product.
On time delivery
On-time delivery
At your doorstep on time! Get this book delivered without any delay.
Quantity:
Add to Wishlist

About the Book

In "Pussy," the girl singer of the eponymous band cracks up after her lover and the band's creative center dies. When her manager tracks her down she is living anonymously in an East Village tenement, rarely going outdoors, and hoarding her own discarded hair, dead skin and other physical castoffs.
In "Greetings from Finsbury Park," a British rock star comes home from L.A. only to find that the customs agent going through his suitcase is an embittered ex-schoolmate whose wife once slept with the star before he was famous.
In "A Happy Ending," a deeply shell-shocked ex-superstar (think Brian Wilson) struggles to keep the voices in his head quiet during a meeting with a hot new producer for a comeback album the A&R boss envisions as an unholy alliance of Neil Young and Public Enemy.
"Love Stain" charts the emergence of devotional offerings, cottage industries, and a pecking order of proximity to the spot where an up and coming young rocker dropped dead on speedballs outside a London club--and his best friend chats up a rock journalist about the tragedy and the conspiracy to murder his friend, all while trying to get her to cover his own band.
In "Rhinestone Tombstone Blues," country music singer-songwriter LeeAnn Starmountain copes with the disappearance of her inspiration--the violent fantasies of her abusive mother's death, which she can no longer indulge in after her mother actually perishes, cooked to death by her electric blanket after a stroke.
In "Close to You," a cult devoted to Karen Carpenter springs up after the singer's image appears in the paint on the wall of a London kebab shop.
In "From a Great Height," controversy erupts when the frontman of America's biggest rock band urinates off his hotel balcony, soaking a crowd of adoring fans.
In "And Alien Tears," a California limo driver with a gift for Jim Morrison impersonation becomes a star in his own right in Germany, hosting a talk show as "Jim."
The hottest band of cock-rockers in America finds their tour going off the rails in "Allergic to Kansas" when the misogynist lead singer starts growing breasts.
In "Diet Cola Cancer" Pussy, the lead character in the first story, returns--post-breakdown, and racking up the younger boyfriends--and even gets sued when one of said boyfriends commits an indiscretion at an LA rock club, and Pussy douses the paramour in "carcinogenic" Diet Coke.
In "I Kissed Willie Nelson's Nipple," LeeAnn visits England on command performance for the Queen, and tells the story of her many marriages, the "greatest hits" of her abusive relationships, and the self-explanatory Willie Nelson film role that put her career back on track.
In "Spitting Image (The '80s Retro Track)," the famous British television show (they made the puppets for Genesis's famous "Land of Confusion" video) agrees to sell one of their puppets to the star it comically represents--but when the puppet is "kidnapped" on the way to its new home, and someone sends the star the puppet piece by violently detached piece, he finds himself cracking up.
In "Too Weird for Ziggy (A Dream of Holes)," a famous rock god is dead, and MTV isn't content to let him rest. So in an unprecedented live television seance at the palatial home of one of LA's most overcompensated rock managers, they hire a voodoo practitioner to raise him from the dead, on live television.
In "Jeremiah 18:1-10" the band from "From a Great Height" returns and now the drummer has a stalker, who claims God has commanded her to become his wife. The trouble is, she seems so innocent and naive, no one takes her seriously until the drummer's stripper fiancee suddenly turns up dead.
In "The Audience Isn't Listening," the bass player and guitarist from the same band cope with the rumor that the megalomaniacal singer is planning to dissolve the band and keep the name--while the guitarist's wife has secret designs of her own on the singer.
In "Baudelaire's Do


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780802141569
  • Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
  • Publisher Imprint: Grove Press, Black Cat
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 266
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 299 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0802141560
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 141 mm


Similar Products

How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Bookswagon?

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS           
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Too Weird for Ziggy
Grove Press, Black Cat -
Too Weird for Ziggy
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Too Weird for Ziggy

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book
    Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!