Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Blast From the Past
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Kinky Friedman
Class/Genre: Mystery Humorous
Series: Kinky Friedman # 11
Simon & Schuster, Sep 1998, 256 pp.
Kinky Friedman is heading to the apartment of Stephanie DuPont to collect seven million dollars when he takes a blow to head and learns first hand what Alice and Dorothy's strange adventures were like. Suddenly, it is no longer 1997 as Kinky is back in 1970's Greenwich Village.
Kinky meets the Village Irregulars for the first time. His pal, Ratso Sloman suggests Kinky become a private investigator because of his weird way at looking at things. Kinky's first client is Abby Hoffman, who is being stalked by a dangerous person, who ultimately blows up the Kinkster's Manhattan apartment, making the case suddenly very personal.
BLAST FROM THE PAST may be the best Kinky Friedman novel of them all. The eccentric reoccurring characters come to life and their relationship to Kinky is groovy. The setting is vintage Greenwich Village as seen through a purple haze of smoke. The story line is raunchy humor with a bittersweet message about the ultimate results of the sixties idealism- or was it naivety? In his eleventh Kinky novel, Mr. Friedman demonstrates he is one of the best at humorously trivializing society.
Harriet Klausner
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