Paul Is Undead

Zusatztext From Publisher's Weekly Starred Review. Are readers ready for a world in which the Beatles just wanna eat your brains? Goldsher ( Hard Bop Academy ) thinks so! and he may be right. In this humor-filled splatterfest! the rise and fall of the zombie Beatles unfolds through eyewitness accounts! newspaper clippings! and interviews. Violence and music go hand-in-hand as the zombiefied Lennon! Harrison! and McCartney fight! eat! and rock their way to fame and popularity while ninja lord Ringo Starr tries to keep them out of trouble. Nothing can stop them--not even a vampiric Pete Best! zombie-killing Mick Jagger! rival ninja Yoko Ono! or bad reviews. In fact! their only enemies may be one another! as personal conflicts threaten to break them up for good. Roughly paralleling the real-world career of the Beatles! this alternate history reimagines successes! failures! and rivalries with over-the-top bizarro charm. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information! a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Informationen zum Autor Novelist/ghostwriter/journalist Alan Goldsher is the author of the forthcoming Beatles/horror/humor mash-up Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion (Gallery Books, June 22, 2010), as well as Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read , and the novel Jam . Midnight Movie , the novel he co-wrote with director Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") will be published in 2011. Written as A.M. Goldsher, his chicklit novels The True Naomi Story , Reality Check , and Today's Special were released in the U.K. and Marabout in France in 2008, with No Ordinary Girl to come in 2011. As a ghostwriter, Alan has collaborated on projects with comedians Bernie Mac and Fred Willard; actor Robert Englund, Ironman triathlete Sarah Reinertsen, and "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malakar, among other notable celebrities and public figures. Alan's sportswriting has been seen in ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, NBA.com, and ChicagoBulls.com, and he reviews books for Kirkus. During his 10-plus years as a professional bassist, Goldsher recorded with Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and Naughty by Nature; toured the world with Digable Planets; and performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards. Alan lives and writes in Chicago. CHAPTER ONE 1940–1961 J ohn Lennon is an easy man to track down, but he’s a hard man to pin down. He hasn’t released a record of new music since 1980, thus he’s not affiliated with a label, so there isn’t a publicity manager you can call to set up an interview. He doesn’t give a damn what people say about him in the press, so he has no need or desire for a PR person. He’s a hermit who doesn’t answer his phone, return emails, or leave the house. The only difference between him and fellow zombie recluse J. D. Salinger is that everybody knows where Lennon lives: The Dakota on 72nd and Central Park West, Apartment 72, New York City, America. But if you make nice with the Dakota’s concierge, and slip him a few sawbucks, he might deliver John a package. If you load the package with several boxes of Corn Flakes and ten pounds of Kopi Luwak—a painfully bitter coffee from Indonesia that costs almost six hundred bucks a pound—John might ring you on your cell. If you can persuade John that you don’t have an agenda other than finding out the story behind the Beatles, and you don’t have an axe to grind, and you’ve never touched a diamond bullet in your life, John might invite you over to share a bit of that Kopi. And then maybe, just maybe, after a while, he’ll talk to you on the record about his life and career. It took me two years of rambling cell chats, bottomless bowls of Corn Flakes, and horrible java to get Jo...

About the author

Novelist/ghostwriter/journalist Alan Goldsher is the author of the forthcoming Beatles/horror/humor mash-up Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion (Gallery Books, June 22, 2010), as well as Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read, and the novel Jam. Midnight Movie, the novel he co-wrote with director Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") will be published in 2011. Written as A.M. Goldsher, his chicklit novels The True Naomi Story, Reality Check, and Today's Special were released in the U.K. and Marabout in France in 2008, with No Ordinary Girl to come in 2011.

As a ghostwriter, Alan has collaborated on projects with comedians Bernie Mac and Fred Willard; actor Robert Englund, Ironman triathlete Sarah Reinertsen, and "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malakar, among other notable celebrities and public figures.

Alan's sportswriting has been seen in ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, NBA.com, and ChicagoBulls.com, and he reviews books for Kirkus.

During his 10-plus years as a professional bassist, Goldsher recorded with Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and Naughty by Nature; toured the world with Digable Planets; and performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards.

Alan lives and writes in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Goldsher, Goldsher Alan
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781439177921
• ISBN: 978-1-4391-7792-1
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 211 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Pocket Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), HUMOR / Form / Parodies, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Humorous, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, FICTION / Horror / General