مرد طرفدار

The indestructible cult classic starring Horse Badorties, legendary founder of Dorky Day, begins... I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad. Piled with sheet music, with piles of garbage bags bursting with rubbish and encrusted frying pans piled on the floor, embedded with unnameable flecks of putrefied wretchedness in grease. My pad, man, my own little Lower East Side Horse Badorties pad. I've been illustrated and pixelated, man. My roaches have been lovingly depicted in their little boat, rowing through my pad. Yes, man, to celebrate Dorky Day, the illustrated edition of The Fan Man is now available for downloading into your very own precious valuable e-reader. The pictures are amazingly authentic, man, with detail down to roach level. You can see dope-smoking pigeons and there's a beautiful one of the Pope of Junk, with deep religious feelings moving in his heart just before he sells me a worthless yellow school bus. It's all here, man, your favorite characters and mine. With just a click of your finger, you can have Uncle Skulky in your attic, and Hawkman, man, climbing through the window of your digital device. How wonderful, man, once again you can read Horse Badorties monologues to your friends in the dorm or the nearby jail cell. "This is music to be played in the head, and only the quickest, least inhibited sight-readers can play it as written, and thus hear head music the likes of which, prior to its publication in 1974, had never been heard. It was and remains important..." from Kurt Vonnegut's forward "The landmark novel of the dusking of the Age of Aquarius after its beatnik-hippie, speedfreak-pataphysician, revolutionist-artist Lower East Side decade-long summer of love - be-ins, psychedelics, dumpster prospecting, tenant squatting - is William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man." Herbert Gold "This short, artfully structured, supremely insane novel is Buddha's story, turned inside out. Horse Badorties walks into American literature a full-blown achievement, a heroic godheaded head, a splendid creep, a sublime prince of the holy trash pile. Send congratulations to William Kotzwinkle, also a hero, man." William Kennedy, New Republic "Kotzwinkle's story of a drug-flavored, flailing genius is a fine piece of work that deserves to wind up in some college lit class of the future, along with Thompson and Wolfe." Rolling Stone " The Fan Man cuts through so many games that it leaves a trail of clear light." Ram Dass "A delightfully, often devastatingly funny novel. William Kotzwinkle has created a new kind of character who, while dwelling in the realms of the fantastic, touches upon far more aspects of contemporary life then do many so-called American characters. (Horse is a) kind of Ginger Man, Lucky Jim, Huck Finn, and Easy Rider all mixed up in one. A marvelous creation." Seattle Times "This is one of my favorite books. Ever. Kotzwinkle's doped-up, cooled-out street bum - whose prize possessions include the self-given mantra "Dorky" and a fan that hums with the universe - lives on." QPB Review "Hilarious. The Aquarian age found its correct chronicler in this book." San Francisco Review of Books "Kotzwinkle has invented a human dada, full of one-line gags and comic perceptions." New York Times Book Review "Old Horse is one hell of a character, man." Philadelphia Bulletin