#Booktour The Ugly
The Ugly
By Alexander Boldizar
Genre: Satire/literary fiction/humor
Muzhduk the Ugli the Fourth is a 300–pound
boulder–throwing mountain man from Siberia whose tribal homeland is stolen by
an American lawyer out to build a butterfly conservatory for wealthy tourists.
In order to restore his people's land and honor, Muzhduk must travel to Harvard
Law School to learn how to throw words instead of boulders. His anarchic
adventures span continents, from Siberia to Cambridge to Africa, as he fights
fellow students, Tuareg rebels, professors of law, dark magic, bureaucrats,
heatstroke, postmodernists, and eventually time and space. A wild existential
comedic romp, THE UGLY tells the tale of a flawed and unlikely hero struggling
against the machine that shapes the people who govern our world.
“A comedically absurd tour de force that
examines the complex relationship between words and actions.” – Foreword
Reviews (editor’s pick, 5 stars)
"[A] muscular critique of conflicts both
intellectual and physical. A surprising treat." -- Publisher's Weekly
"A full-on satire of contemporary law as mesmerizing and
complex as something lost from Foster Wallace, yet as light in tone as A
Confederacy of Dunces." -- Goodreads (#1 New Releases, Sept 2016)
"A bold and hilarious satire, a stunning debut." -- LB
Book Notes
"This decade's A Confederacy of Dunces." -- Christoph Paul, Clash Media
Author Bio
Alexander Boldizar was the first
post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from
Harvard Law School. Since then, he has been an art gallery director in Bali, an
attorney in San Francisco and Prague, a pseudo-geisha in Japan, a hermit in
Tennessee, a paleontologist in the Sahara, a porter in the High Arctic, a
police-abuse watchdog in New York City, an editor and art critic in Jakarta and
Singapore, and a consultant on Wall Street. His writing has won the PEN/Nob
Hill prize and was the Breadloaf nominee for Best New American Voices. Boldizar
currently lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where his hobbies include throwing
boulders and choking people while wearing pajamas, for which he won a gold
medal at the Pan American Championships and a bronze at the World Masters
Championships of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. For several years, an online Korean
dictionary had him listed as its entry for “ugly.”
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