Chocolate Lizards
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- Synopsis
- When a Harvard-educated aspiring actor loses all of his cash during a bus-ride poker game, he finds himself stranded in Abilene, Texas, broke and desperate. Enter Merle Luskey, a hard-drinkin', tough-talkin', oil-drillin', woman-lovin' wild-catter who just happens to have a job opening. About to lose his oil rigs and his ranch to the bank, Merle has a proposition for his new friend: he needs a 'rat killer', someone smart enough to help him outwit the bank, the sheriff, and a rival drilling company in a frantic race to hit pay dirt before the foreclosure goes through.In the end, good old Texan gumption wins out, but regardless, Chocolate Lizards is a helluva ride.Chocolate Lizards is a new indie 'dramedy' starring Rudy Pankow and Carrie-Anne Moss, alongside Oscar nominees Thomas Haden Church and Bruce Dern'Definitely one for all the line dancers out there. Yeehaw!' - The List'Thompson hooks you like a novice trout in a paddling pool...and he doesn't let go - The Times'Chocolate Lizards is an extravagant and very entertaining example of West Texas oil-field gothic. It's as if the Castle of Otranto had been moved to Abilene, Texas, and peopled with refugees from Monty Python' - Larry McMurtry'Driving through West Texas, you'd swear the pump-jacks grow right out of the ground. They are as much a part of the scenery as shinnery brush. Drillers and roughnecks live by their own set of rules-a breed apart. Cole Thompson has written a great book and I think he captured it all, even the insanity' - Waylon Jennings
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857305275
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780857305268
- Publisher:
- Oldcastle Books, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 03/02/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Cole Thompson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.