Zebra Skin Shirt

by Gregory Hill Narrated by Gregory Hill

Overview

The sun's been setting for several months. Nobody's blinking. And no matter how hard he blows, the referee's whistle doesn't make a sound. Time to make up some new rules.

With audacious humor, unpredictable turns, and outlandish calls, Zebra Skin Shirt is the brilliantly-conceived conclusion/solution to Gregory Hill's Strattford County Series.

Before the clocks stopped, Narwhal Slotterfield was an ordinary basketball referee. He blew his whistle. He stretched the rules. He even had a girlfriend.

But then the clock thing happened. 

Now it's 7:23 pm, Narwhal's in a diner in the middle of the Great Plains, and now is all he's got. 

Left to wander a planet where people stand like manikins and raindrops never reach the earth, our ref soon realizes he has the power to officiate the universe itself, an endeavor that leads him along a philosophical mobius strip wrapped around the world as tightly as a wedding ring. 

A love story, in other words. 

DANGER! THIS NOVEL CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF: Hallucinatory drugs, self-loathing, time-warpage, and numerous flashbacks. Also: fifty-eight instances of the word fuck.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"A brilliantly-executed, fascinating, and relentlessly hilarious immersion into the Twilight Zone as it exists on the plains of Eastern Colorado. Hill's
imagination on full-blast is a force of nature. This ranks with the best of Vonnegut's mind-benders, but with more laughs page-for-page." —Zach Boddicker, Author of The Essential Carl Mahogany
"A basketball referee with the Pynchonesque name of Narwal Slotterfield orders a hamburger at a diner in eastern Colorado and time stops across the universe. What happens after that becomes a funhouse-mirror holograph of a novel produced by Slotterfield's cornered brain as it tries to understand this new world. Time hasn't stopped, he learns, it has just slowed down, slow enough to allow Gregory Hill's wild story to unfold in completely unexpected ways." —John Vernon, Author of Lucky Billy
"Part mystery, part Steven Wright stand-up routine, part Einsteinian thought experiment, what do you call Zebra Skin Shirt? Sly-Fi? Off-off-off-beat? Magical Surrealism? Whatever it is, three cheers for the unforgettable former amateur basketball referee, Narwhal W. Slotterfield, and his creator, the wildly imaginative Gregory Hill." —Mike Keefe, Political Cartoonist
"Zebra Skin Shirt rocks. One. Of. A. Kind." —Mark Stevens, Author of the Allison Coil Mystery Series
"A psychedelic tale of adventure and love unfolding on Hill's beloved Eastern Colorado Plains. Our hero and narrator, Narwhal Slotterfield, treks through tornadoes, gutted homesteads and survivalist compounds all while navigating an alternative time/space reality. He's on a journey of self-discovery that resonates as an experimental love song to rural culture on the plains." —Richard Saxton, M12 Studio Director and Professor University of Colorado Boulder

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176667745
Publisher:	Daisy Dog Press
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Series:	Strattford County , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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