Lounge Lizard - Mark SaFranko (for Henry Miller fans)

Praise For Lounge Lizard:

"Echoes of Dan Fante's Bruno Dante permeate SaFranko's brilliant follow-up to 'Hating Olivia', which is as honest and readable as its predecessor. Each page reflects the personality of a writer who can see a poetic beauty in the most mundane of experiences - suggesting SaFranko can hold his own with Miller, Fante (John and Dan) and Bukowski."
--- James Doorne (Bizarre Magazine - Issue 133)

"Could 'Lounge Lizard' possibly live up to the brilliance of Hating Olivia? A book I considered to be one of the finest published this century. Or would it be like the sequel of many Hollywood blockbusters, which generally speaking usually turn out to be nothing more than damp squibs?
Well fear not... 'Lounge Lizard' is a rollicking read, packed with taut sentences, sparkling dialogue, and guaranteed to blow your mind wide open. Against all the odds SaFranko has pulled off the rarely achieved feat of equalling the brilliance of the original and 'Lounge Lizard' matches its mighty predecessor page for page and word for word and grabs the reader by the balls from the first page in."
--- Joseph Ridgwell (Bookmunch)

"Murder Slim Press, one of the most eclectic and interesting of the underground publishers, has done it again: put out another superb novel by Mark SaFranko, author of their previous production, 'Hating Olivia'. SaFranko’s prose is, as usual, finely crafted and almost effortless in its intensity.... Mark SaFranko is a major writer, and 'Lounge Lizard' is essential reading."
--- Zsolt Alapi (LauraHird.com)

"'Lounge Lizard' works on many levels—as a modern, Alfie-style rumination on sex and what it means to be a man, as a dirty, Bukowski-esque romp—but ultimately its greatest strength is as a tale of what happened to those hedonistic, free spirits who ran up against the seismic culture shift that happened at the end of the 70's.
"The denouement here [is] chilling, but it's nothing less than what we have grown to expect from an uncompromising voice like Mark SaFranko. SaFranko has built upon the solid foundation of 'Hating Olivia', to produce a work that is even more ambitious and exciting."
--- Susan Tomaselli (Dogmatika)

IBSN 0955131545
216 pages
Trade paperback size (as Black Sparrow Press)
Professionally bound with stunning cover and inside cover art