Count Geiger's Blues

Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish, and soap operas as the contemptible spew of script-writing committees. While skinny-dipping in a pool polluted with radioactive waste, Thaxton is afflicted with superpowers all his own and becomes that which he most scorns. A radiation-induced ailment, the Philistine Syndrome, forces him to assume the persona of comic-book hero Count Geiger to allay its career- and indeed life-threatening symptoms. Michael Bishop's Count Geiger Blues, a novel of intellectual heft and self-spoofing kitsch, is a take on superheroes like no other: a rollicking foray into high and low culture that mines the vicissitudes and tragedies of everyday life for serious belly laughs and bona fide heartbreak.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bishop
• Publisher: Touchladybirdlucky Studios
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9781933846484
• ISBN: 978-1-933846-48-4
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy