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Is Everybody Nuts?


The novel is actually my first novel. I shelved it for years. (click to enlarge)
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Is Everybody Nuts? is a satiric novel centered around the 1977 wedding of millionaire Oswald Salt's daughter, Susan, to David Marino, who works in his father's pool hall. Susan will marry David Marino at her father's house, but the Salt mansion becomes a gathering point for every nut in the city on their wedding day.
Guests, many uninvited, include a bizarre film director and his crew, a meteor god worshipper, a motorcycle gang, Mafia hoods, a racist caterer, a crazy doctor, corrupt millionaires, winos and grifters, a doped out rock band, the police commissioner, a bomber with yellow feet, horses and covered wagons, the FBI, and a really strange super-hero the Masked Meatball. Oswald Salt tried to stop his daughter from getting married, and when that failed, he tries to make the wedding a success.
Oswald Salt will ask the question no one can answer: Is Everybody Nuts?
Even though the wedding takes place in 1977, the problems the characters face are relevant today, proving human problems never really change no matter how much times passes. You will either love this book or absolutely hate it. I don't believe there is an in between feeling on this one.

The manuscript was typed in 1973 on an old manual typewriter (453 pages). I submitted it to Putnam, a big publisher back then, and it came back almost a year later after having been run over by a truck so the box was flattened with tire tread marks. It was either a mistake or some editor really hated the novel. 
I managed to keep it intact for 41 years in a manuscript box before I looked at it again. It was like viewing something I wrote but didn't recall exactly how or why I wrote it. I knew the story, but I rediscovered all the people in the book. I also realized it was actually good and possibly could have been published when I wrote it.
So I brought it back out of the box, scanned it, and edited the end result several times to fix scanner mistakes and to remove some excess wording. It's now about 337 printed pages, and maybe the best comedy I will ever write.
This is not a novel to delve too deep into the characters. They are all nuts in their own way. And everyone knows what happens when you gather a group of crazy people together and turn them loose in an enclosed place. (I guess I should have called the book Congress.) It could be considered silly at times, and is full of belly laughs, but I feel the way the plot and the circumstance weave together make it a special book.
The book is available now. The price will be around 15.00 in trade paperback (before any discounts if they apply) through places like Amazon and other retailers. It will also be listed in the Euro Union, England, Canada, and Australian currency countries.
This is my 8th novel, and if it makes you laugh, I'm happy. It is probably the strangest wedding you will ever attend.

            ISBN-10 0-9796744-9-2
ISBN-13 978-0-9796744-9-5
YS Gazelle Books

Comments

  1. Unknown6:44 PM

    Readers tell this novel is all about sex or has a lot of sexual situations. Well, I wrote it a long time ago and I'm half Italian.

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  2. Anonymous9:03 AM

    Funny, wacky, unusual, strange tale with sexual overbite......I kept think-"what next?". This was an entertaining read for me, but like my first wife.....took some getting use to. This was a trip on AIR BIZZARO___ you depart the terminal on a Monday and return on the previous Friday, so you'll still have the weekend!!! THX for this one DL! Hawk

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    1. Unknown7:58 PM

      Thanks for the read. I just saw your comment. If you ever get a chance post it on Amazon for me. Semper Fi
      Dennis

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    2. Anonymous3:51 PM

      This novEl is great make a funny movie.

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