Plaster City, Johnny Shaw
Plaster City, Johnny Shaw
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Plaster City

Author: Johnny Shaw

Narrator: Johnny Shaw

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/01/2014


Synopsis

Jimmy Veeder and Bobby Maves are back at it, two years after the events of Dove Season—they’re not exactly the luckiest guys in the Imperial Valley, but, hey, they win more fights than they lose.Settled on his own farmland and living like a true family man after years of irresponsible fun, Jimmy’s got a straight life cut out for him. But he’s knocking years off that life thanks to fun-yet-dangerous Bobby’s booze-addled antics—especially now that Bobby is single, volatile as ever, and bored as hell.When Bobby’s teenage daughter goes missing, he and Jimmy take off on a misadventure that starts out as merely unfortunate and escalates to downright calamitous. Bobby won’t hesitate to kick a hornets’ nest to get the girl to safety, but when the rescue mission goes riotously sideways, the duo’s grit—and loyalty to each other—is put to the test.

About Johnny Shaw

Johnny Shaw is the author of the novels Dove Season: A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco and Big Maria. He is also the editor of the online fiction quarterly Blood & Tacos.Johnny received his MFA in screenwriting from UCLA and over the course of his writing career has seen his screenplays optioned, sold, and produced. For the last dozen years, Johnny has taught screenwriting. He has lectured at both Santa Barbara City College and UC Santa Barbara.Johnny lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, artist Roxanne Patruznick.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

“Ceja Carneros hit me so hard he broke his watch on my head.” And with that opening line the second Jimmy Veeder Fiasco begins. In Dove Season Jimmy returned to his childhood home in the desert country of Imperial Valley in California after years of doing his best avoid any and all responsibility. No......more

Goodreads review by James

Anthony Award winner Johnny Shaw returns to the Imperial Valley (“as far south and as far east as you could go in California”), for another Jimmy Veeder Fiasco. Shaw introduced Jimmy in 2010's Dove Season, and it's great to have him back. The Imperial Valley is hard desert country full of tough, resi......more


Quotes

“Johnny Shaw has a way of making the ugliest, roughest, most insane misadventures feel honest and hilarious. Underneath all that vomit and blood is real affection, even tenderness, for a world that Shaw obviously knows well. His writing is brutal and profane and absolutely beautiful.” —SG Redling bestselling author of Flowertown and The Widow File

“If you do not love Johnny Shaw’s new novel Plaster City, I will fight you.” —Christa Faust, author of Money Shot and Choke Hold

“Each one of Johnny Shaw’s books has left me a happy camper, with the conviction that the next book couldn’t possibly be better...Plaster City is a wonderfully plotted, humor-filled book, with masterfully drawn eccentric characters up the yin-yang...a book that shows genuine heart.” Murder by the Book