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Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes (2020, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSOHO Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10161695812X

ISBN-139781616958121

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038379581

Product Key Features

Book TitleMe and Mr. Cigar

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicParanormal, Occult & Supernatural, Animals / Dogs, Magical Realism, Action & Adventure / General, General, Family / Siblings, Coming of Age

Publication Year2020

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

AuthorGibby Haynes

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN2019-020710

ReviewsPraise for Me and Mr. Cigar "It takes a book as hilarious, bizarre, profane, and heartfelt as Me & Mr. Cigar to truly convey the surreality of coming of age as a teenage boy. This book hit this former teenage boy and new dog owner right in the heart, by way of the gut." --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "This book is so wild, so mind-blowing, much fun to read, that I almost forgot it was fiction! (It is fiction, right? Mega-giant tech companies aren't really in cahoots with the government, right? Flying alien creatures aren't really mistaken for lawnmowers . . . right? Please, tell me this is fiction!) Fast-paced, brilliantly funny, irreverent, clever . . . AND it's illustrated? Me and Mr. Cigar is the quintessential teen read, and ipso facto a must-read for adults, too!" --Garth Stein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain "In the book world we call it 'magical realism.' In the music world they call it 'psychedelic rock.' Gibby Haynes is very good at both, which he proves with his brilliant first novel Me and Mr. Cigar . This novel has it all: glimpses into Haynes's Texas childhood and teen years, a touch of his distinctive surrealism, and a heartfelt story which makes it a very good read." -- Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Recovery Road "I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It was a dang blast!" --Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast "By far the weirdest book I have ever read." --The Nerd Daily "Oscar is wreathed by a colorful supporting cast led by a pooch who is generally the brightest and most dangerous character in the room . . . As boy-and-his-dog tales go, a long, long way from Lassie." -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "[A] solid series launch . . . Readers will welcome Emma into the ranks of capable female detectives." -- Publisher's Weekly, Praise for Me and Mr. Cigar "I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It was a dang blast!" --Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast, Praise for Me and Mr. Cigar An LA Weekly Book of the Month "It takes a book as hilarious, bizarre, profane, and heartfelt as Me & Mr. Cigar to truly convey the surreality of coming of age as a teenage boy. This book hit this former teenage boy and new dog owner right in the heart, by way of the gut." --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "This book is so wild, so mind-blowing, much fun to read, that I almost forgot it was fiction! (It is fiction, right? Mega-giant tech companies aren''t really in cahoots with the government, right? Flying alien creatures aren''t really mistaken for lawnmowers . . . right? Please, tell me this is fiction!) Fast-paced, brilliantly funny, irreverent, clever . . . AND it''s illustrated? Me and Mr. Cigar is the quintessential teen read, and ipso facto a must-read for adults, too!" --Garth Stein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain "In the book world we call it ''magical realism.'' In the music world they call it ''psychedelic rock.'' Gibby Haynes is very good at both, which he proves with his brilliant first novel Me and Mr. Cigar . This novel has it all: glimpses into Haynes''s Texas childhood and teen years, a touch of his distinctive surrealism, and a heartfelt story which makes it a very good read." -- Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Recovery Road "I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It was a dang blast!" --Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast "Butthole Surfers'' Gibby Haynes wrote a YA book as weird as the band''s music." --The AV Club "This is a story of friendship and the complexities of family. Of retribution and forgiveness. And it''s hard to say much else without giving too much away . . . The book does feel rebellious and mildly dangerous--the sort of thing a young teen will delight in reading when the parents are downstairs watching TV, smiling at the fact that they''ll never know the subversive nature of the prose because, let''s face it, most parents don''t read their teen''s Young Adult novels. But the flip-side is that there are real life lessons in here." -- LA Weekly "[Haynes] has traded in the bullhorn-blasted vocals for a more nuanced, but just as outrageous, form of expression . . . Combines the coming-of-age edge of The Catcher in the Rye with the surrealism of David Lynch." --San Antonio Express-News "YA the Gibby Haynes way." -- The Hype Magazine , Gift Guide "Are you sitting uncomfortably? Butthole Surfers chaos magnet Gibby Haynes has written a YA novel . . . It''s midway between a coming-of-age fable and a psychadelic road novel." -- UNCUT Magazine "By far the weirdest book I have ever read." --The Nerd Daily " Me & Mr. Cigar is a mind-blowing, surrealistic novel about a boy and his dog . . . This wonderful--if completely odd book is unlike anything you''ve read before." --The Big Takeover "Haynes has concocted a compelling story. The cartoon chaos he used to create within the confines of a five-minute rock song were legend. Given 250 pages (divided into 90 speedy chapters), it''s bonkers." --Red Hook Star-Revue "Oscar is wreathed by a colorful supporting cast led by a pooch who is generally the brightest and most dangerous character in the room . . . As boy-and-his-dog tales go, a long, long way from Lassie." -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "Haynes''s fast-paced debut is full of colorful characters and concepts." --Publishers Weekly, Praise for Me and Mr. Cigar "It takes a book as hilarious, bizarre, profane, and heartfelt as Me & Mr. Cigar to truly convey the surreality of coming of age as a teenage boy. This book hit this former teenage boy and new dog owner right in the heart, by way of the gut." --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "This book is so wild, so mind-blowing, much fun to read, that I almost forgot it was fiction! (It is fiction, right? Mega-giant tech companies aren't really in cahoots with the government, right? Flying alien creatures aren't really mistaken for lawnmowers . . . right? Please, tell me this is fiction!) Fast-paced, brilliantly funny, irreverent, clever . . . AND it's illustrated? Me and Mr. Cigar is the quintessential teen read, and ipso facto a must-read for adults, too!" --Garth Stein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain "In the book world we call it 'magical realism.' In the music world they call it 'psychedelic rock.' Gibby Haynes is very good at both, which he proves with his brilliant first novel Me and Mr. Cigar . This novel has it all: glimpses into Haynes's Texas childhood and teen years, a touch of his distinctive surrealism, and a heartfelt story which makes it a very good read." -- Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Recovery Road "I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It was a dang blast!" --Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast "By far the weirdest book I have ever read." --The Nerd Daily "Oscar is wreathed by a colorful supporting cast led by a pooch who is generally the brightest and most dangerous character in the room . . . As boy-and-his-dog tales go, a long, long way from Lassie." -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "[A] solid series launch . . . Readers will welcome Emma into the ranks of capable female detectives." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Me and Mr. Cigar "It takes a book as hilarious, bizarre, profane, and heartfelt as Me & Mr. Cigar to truly convey the surreality of coming of age as a teenage boy. This book hit this former teenage boy and new dog owner right in the heart, by way of the gut." --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "This book is so wild, so mind-blowing, much fun to read, that I almost forgot it was fiction! (It is fiction, right? Mega-giant tech companies aren't really in cahoots with the government, right? Flying alien creatures aren't really mistaken for lawnmowers . . . right? Please, tell me this is fiction!) Fast-paced, brilliantly funny, irreverent, clever . . . AND it's illustrated? Me and Mr. Cigar is the quintessential teen read, and ipso facto a must-read for adults, too!" --Garth Stein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain "In the book world we call it 'magical realism.' In the music world they call it 'psychedelic rock.' Gibby Haynes is very good at both, which he proves with his brilliant first novel Me and Mr. Cigar . This novel has it all: glimpses into Haynes's Texas childhood and teen years, a touch of his distinctive surrealism, and a heartfelt story which makes it a very good read." -- Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Recovery Road "I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It was a dang blast!" --Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast "Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes wrote a YA book as weird as the band's music." --The AV Club "[Haynes] has traded in the bullhorn-blasted vocals for a more nuanced, but just as outrageous, form of expression . . . Combines the coming-of-age edge of The Catcher in the Rye with the surrealism of David Lynch." --San Antonio Express-News "By far the weirdest book I have ever read." --The Nerd Daily "Haynes has concocted a compelling story. The cartoon chaos he used to create within the confines of a five-minute rock song were legend. Given 250 pages (divided into 90 speedy chapters), it's bonkers." --Red Hook Star-Revue "Oscar is wreathed by a colorful supporting cast led by a pooch who is generally the brightest and most dangerous character in the room . . . As boy-and-his-dog tales go, a long, long way from Lassie." -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "Haynes's fast-paced debut is full of colorful characters and concepts." --Publishers Weekly

Grade FromNinth Grade

SynopsisFrom the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes--world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent--comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog, Mr. Cigar. Oscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves, despite the fact that Oscar's family has all but vanished--his father is dead; his mother has a new boyfriend. His older sister, Rachel, fled five years ago . . . right after Mr. Cigar bit off her hand. Despite the freak accident, Oscar knows his dog is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a loyal protector: a supernatural creature that can exact revenge, communicate telepathically, and manipulate car doors and windows with ease. So, when Rachel--now twenty-two and an artist living in New York--calls out of the blue and claims she's being held hostage, Oscar sees an opportunity to make things right between them. He races north, intent on both saving Rachel and fleeing the mysterious evil forces targeting his dog. And it's only by embarking on this dual quest that Oscar starts to untangle his own life and understand the bizarre reality of Mr. Cigar. *Features original artwork by Gibby Haynes as full color endpapers and illustrations throughout the book., A darkly humorous YA debut about a lost Texas teen and his supernatural dog, from legendary Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes., For five years, seventeen-year-old Oscar has never been without his dog, Mr. Cigar. The two have made a pretty good life for themselves in North Texas, though Oscar's mother spends all her time with her new boyfriend. As for Oscar's older sister, Rachel she fled after Mr. Cigar bit off her left hand. Oscar was twelve. But he alone knows the truth: his beloved pet is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a supernatural companion. After years of silence, Rachel calls out of the blue. She's being held hostage and will only be released if she pays a debt she owes. At the same time, Oscar is warned to get Mr. Cigar out of town. The truth of Rachel's circumstances ultimately uncovers the truth of Oscar's own... and the truth about Mr. Cigar.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.1.H3968Me 2020