Cosmic Banditos: - A Contrabandist's Quest for the Meaning of Life

Informationen zum Autor A. C. Weisbecker Klappentext Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack! Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on "ridiculously false" drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places…. Foreword An odd occurrence, even by my standards.1 Picture it this way: You’ve offed your home, a comfy if rustic little villa with a wood stove, and deer standing outside the picture window. You’ve summarily given up a movie and TV writing career that’s been quite good to you over the years, although it currently appears to be going nowhere.2 You’ve sold, chucked or given away everything that might impede swift, economical movement and hit the road -- just your dog and you, with no plans to return. You’ve burned bridges. Your former life seems over, kaput . The only apparent meaning to your new life is based on this idea: You’re in search of an old friend and sometime partner in crime who vanished into the wilds of Central America five years before. You have little idea of what you’re going to say to this guy if and when you track him down – although you do have some questions in mind -- or where you might go and what you might do afterward, but that’s the plan. In some sense, what you’re doing is an attempt at making sense of things, of your life. 3 Truth is, you’re about halfway out of your mind. 4 You’re in far southern Mexico now, four months into your bolt. You left in 1996 but it’s now 1997. You’ve pulled over onto the side of a road labeled Mex 200 on the map. You cut your engine. There’s no traffic. It’s very quiet. You’re staring at a sign indicating a turnoff to a town some distance inland. Motozintla. You’re suddenly feeling dizzy and a little disoriented – a little more disoriented than usual. You’ve seen this word, this name, before. Where? Had a ring to it when you first saw it. You say it aloud. Motozintla. Moe-toe-ZEEN-tlah. Still has a ring to it. In your mind you travel back in time to 1982. Your life of crime is over, recently abandoned due to ridiculous, though dangerous, circumstances. You’re staring at the first page of a composition book. You start writing. Your goal is to make sense of things, of your life. 5 Before that first session of writing is finished, you find you’ve turned back to the first page and printed at the top the words Cosmic Banditos . You don’t know where this came from, since you have no real idea of where the story is going. You’re completely winging it. About all you’ve accomplished so far is the description of a dog. You shrug and press on. Back on the roadside in Mexico in 1997, you dimly recall that at some point in the writing you did in 1982 you needed a town in southern Mexico for some things to happen in. You’d pulled out a world atlas and searched for a name that has a ring to it. Motozintla. The characters in the story you’re writing have an adventure in Motozintla then move on. 1 The events described in The Forward to the New Edition should be completely viewed as more or less being at least partly true. In other words, as nonfiction . 2 You don’t wish to name the movie studio that caused your career to be going nowhere but it’s the one t...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A C Weisbecker, A. C. Weisbecker, A.C. Weisbecker
• Verlag: Berkley Publishing Group
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780451203069
• ISBN: 978-0-451-20306-9
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 134 mm x 202 mm x 14 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur