Hot-Jack!

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HOT-JACK! is a dark comedy "written by" a young boy and his beast about that young boy and his beast writing a book ... but it is NOT a children's story. Jack is a precocious 12 year-old boy living in a state of constant war with his surroundings, and his "book" is an indictment against everyone and everything in the world ... with the exception of the Idge, his magical beast and only friend. Novella-length, it is a riotous journey into the bizarre, cynical world Jack shares with his wily, mystical pal. You will find yourself laughing out loud again and again at their biting commentary on topics ranging from Jack's sister ("the hideous Celeste") to BORN AGAIN christianity and everywhere in between. It will make you cry as well at the undertones of sadness and frustration of a child lost in a world he "never asked to come into". An astonishingly original and witty first novel by Sam Stricker.