{"product_id":"9781927380567","title":"Foozlers","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the ReLit Award (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoozlers\u003c\/i\u003e is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on the cusp of total breakdown. The groom-to-be in an Indian arranged marriage seeks an escape of the carnal variety. Soon, they will all intersect paths with a gas station attendant and a very “special” car wash operator. And somebody’s got to do something about that noisy, bad-tempered cockatoo.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoozlers\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles that thin line between sane and insane behaviour, and the mayhem and unpredictability fuelled by the “Butterfly Effect”-strangers’ paths crossing for only an instant but having explosive effects. By story’s end, lives, or at least attitudes, will change. Sort of.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFoozlers\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Like Blaise Cendrars’ \u003ci\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, John Kennedy Toole’s \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e and the whacked-out works of J.P. Donleavy, Terry Southern and William Burroughs, \u003ci\u003eFoozlers\u003c\/i\u003e is a madcap tour de force.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Vancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“irreverent, break-neck pace, and rollercoaster prose that’s a lot of fun to ride” (\u003ci\u003eQuill\u0026amp;Quire\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“It’s a caper story with every element slightly off-kilter. And that’s the charm of [\u003ci\u003eFoozlers\u003c\/i\u003e] . . . . Read it and laugh.” (\u003ci\u003eRainReview.com\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154093195504,"sku":"9781927380567","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927380567_p0.jpg?v=1763638086","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927380567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}