AustLit

'Gerard Oakes has enough aggro going on in his life and it’s about to get worse.

He’s been booted off his footy team for mooning a female referee: “how many bad decisions does a bloke have to stomach?”

'His girlfriend has just dumped him: “Sometimes there’s more fundamental things between a man and a woman than just whether you hate each other’s guts.”

'He’s been sacked from his day job as a cigarette salesman: “some places you walk in and they treat you like a drug pusher.”

'And his pride and joy, an HSV Commodore, has just been nicked.

'Enter Lester Allardyce, a loner and a social misfit who goes on a killing spree in a suburban shopping mall. As Gerard’s week goes from bad to worse, their lives become linked in an unimageinable way. What follows is a steady descent into creepy comic madness as Gerard spirals into a fantasy world, culminating in a chilling finale.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Wutheringink edition).

'Bryan Mars was an Australian swimming legend and surf rescue hero brought down by over-eating. He blew it when he blew out, just before the Polympics. Then he disappeared.

'Director Stirling Seagrave wants to make the movie of Bryan’s life. Soap opera star

Garvey Quinn agrees to put on weight for the role. Stirling tells Garvey he will be able to lose the fat after the film is made. Garvey is not so sure, but his actress girlfriend tells him he owes it to his art to give it a go, after all, De Niro did it in Raging Bull. And so the home deliveries of KFC begin.

'Told in the voices of Garvey and Bryan, this is a poignant comedy about celebrity, sport, film-making, and what it’s like to be fat. Really fat.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Wutheringink edition).