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What Rhymes with Bastard?

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A hilariously candid story of a dysfunctional and disintegrating relationship, What Rhymes with Bastard? follows Linda Robertson as she moves from London to San Francisco, where she gets cheated on, gets dumped, loses her job, and forms a cabaret band.

Lindas story begins in London. When her beloved Jack gets locked up in a mental hospital after trying to sail down the Thames in a makeshift raft, Linda doesnt take the hint. Instead, she marries him and moves to San Francisco, where she plans to Get Ahead.

Alas, her blue-skied visions didnt include unemployment, oddball roommates, arguments, or Jack's desperate attempt to sleep with as many women as he can get his hands on. As her romance sours, our heroine pours her bile into song, assembles a cabaret band, and takes to the dark, sticky stages of the city's nightclubs. There, amid a morass of strippers, magicians, artists and assorted weirdoes, she strives for the ultimate musical accolade: Ms Accordion San Francisco 2004.

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Product Details
MacAdam/Cage
1596923016 / 9781596923010
Hardback
01/10/2008
250 pages
152 x 229 mm, 7484 grams