by Bart Schneider
Three Rivers Press / Random House
$14.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-23813-9
Literary Fiction
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About the Book
“Like Joyce’s Dedalus and Bloom, Augie Boyer lives in a world that floats back and forth from Platonic to Aristotelian, which may have something to do with the copious amounts of weed he inhales. Our pothead private eye’s mind drifts from the sensual to the surreal, from the ‘here and now’ to the ‘what-ifs’ and ‘what-of-its.’ The question is, can he keep his mind steady-or at least off the 10,000-line mother of a poem he’s memorizing to impress his poetry-spewing St. Paul police buddy-long enough to figure out what a group of Nazi sympathizers are planning for the Republican National Convention? While Augie kept lighting up, I sat back and enjoyed the contact high.”
- David Doody, Common Good Books, St. Paul, MN
In the dog days of summer, just as the Republican National Convention comes to town, private investigator Augie Boyer learns how far a fringe political group will go to force their agenda in this rollicking topical novel for this or any political season.
Pothead private eye Augie Boyer is out of sorts. He’s been smoking too much Pontchartrain Pootie and scarfing down an excess of fried food. He can’t stop thinking of his therapist wife, who left him for another therapist, and despite the best efforts of his new girlfriend, Erica, Augie’s testosterone levels have sunk lower than the winter temperatures of Minneapolis.
One day, a beautiful, blonde violinist with multiple personalities walks into Augie’s office. She draws him into a complex case that involves neo-Nazi violin collectors, mind control specialists, and a mass of antiabortion activists, who’ve come to the Twin Cities for a huge rally to coincide with the Republican National Convention.
When Augie uncovers a plot to kill three abortion doctors in connection with the rally, he needs all the help he can get. Detective Bobby Sabbatini of the St. Paul Police Department, a rabid poetry evangelist, and Agent Francis Synge, a charming, black-Irish master of code, are by his side, along with his assistant Blossom, a spike-haired ex-con. But when Augie’s only child, the radical singer-songwriter Minnesota Rose, arrives to sing at a protest rally, he realizes how dangerously close to him the threat has come.
With The Man in the Blizzard, Bart Schneider delivers a politically charged novel imbued with great wit and warmth.
Bart Schneider is the author of the novels Blue Bossa, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Secret Love, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He was the founding editor of the Hungry Mind Review (later Ruminator Review) and now edits Speakeasy magazine.
