EDUARDO AQUIFER AND THE GREAT TANNING INCIDENT
Jeff Hunt, . . Livingston Press at Univ. of West Alabama, $25 (158pp) ISBN 978-1-931982-23-8
Hunt's wobbly second novel offers an unconventional spin on the usual coming-of-age formula. An odd, inquisitive young Mexican writer from Austin, Tex., Eduardo Aquifer, explores his desire to write through a series of adventures and encounters with a bizarre cast of characters. After drifting around, sleeping at local rest stops and under highway overpasses, Aquifer is hired as gardener at an Austin home called "The House Above the World," where he also lives. Hunt then introduces his panoply of weird secondary characters, including a pseudo–Greek chorus called the Black Riders; a shrink named Dr. Reilly, who occasionally informs Aquifer's navel-gazing with snippets from
Reviewed on: 12/15/2003
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 158 pages - 978-1-931982-22-1