You know the thick blue rubber bands the grocery store puts on broccoli? A fed up woman can do a lot of damage with those. California Bookwatch "Urban, rough, and outrageously hilarious." Literary Titan "A fantastically entertaining novel." SPR ""Cutting, empowering, and unforgettable."." Manhattan Book Review "A wild adventure with blood, guts, spit, gore, guns, and four by fours that will leave you wanting more." Seattle Book Review "A fast, compelling ride... I along with many others will be looking ...
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You know the thick blue rubber bands the grocery store puts on broccoli? A fed up woman can do a lot of damage with those. California Bookwatch "Urban, rough, and outrageously hilarious." Literary Titan "A fantastically entertaining novel." SPR ""Cutting, empowering, and unforgettable."." Manhattan Book Review "A wild adventure with blood, guts, spit, gore, guns, and four by fours that will leave you wanting more." Seattle Book Review "A fast, compelling ride... I along with many others will be looking forward to more." US Review of Books "A climax that will be sure to surprise and delight." Shirley Lyle's a big girl who's always kept her profile low. But now - fed up, ready to set fire to her past, her job and her trailer - she's dragged back into a role she's forsworn by a man who presses her buttons with a hammer. And when her partner-in-revolution, Ulyana-the-Ukrainian-stripper disappears, her car empty and bullet holes in the glass, Shirley has no choice but to reach deep, find her sass, put flame to fuse. Who took Ulyana? - The Russian mob? - The man who beat Shirley down? - The 83 year old drug lord who refuses to die? All her life Shirley's believed herself a loser, but now survival demands a new self image.... If you like tales that make your ribs hurt from laughter, your eyes fill with tears and your spirit soar... GRAB THIS BOOK! ★Praise for Clayton Lindemuth★ Clayton Lindemuth's works have been smashingly reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Indie Next List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, San Francisco Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Reader Views, Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (Spinetingler and DoSomeDamage, among others). Clayton's novels Cold Quiet Country and My Brother's Destroyer have been published in France by Le Seuil, and have been charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Shirley F'n Lyle, 1. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
Shirley F'N Lyle: Viva the Revolution (Book One in Chick Grit Lit Series) by Clayton Lindemuth is a fiction story about a hooker named Shirley Lyle who is tired of being treated like she doesn't matter, and she's not going to take it anymore. She wants to be someone different, someone better. Viva the Revolution. She and her friend Ulyana, a stripper, have decided to make men pay for their actions. But things don't go as planned, and the two women find themselves running from a drug dealer after they killed his son. The drug dealer isn't the only person they have to worry about, however. When Ulyana disappears--possibly murdered--will Shirley be next?
There was a lot of action in this book, plus the mystery of Ulyana's disappearance, which held my interest in the story. The story line was dark, but there was enough humor in the book to lighten it. I liked Dr. Kristanna Rong's character and the encouragement she gave Shirley to make a change in her life. I was hoping for her to be a larger part of the story, but she only appeared in the beginning. I also liked that there was a slight romantic element with Donal O'Laughlin wanting to date Shirley rather than paying for her services.
I enjoyed reading the back and forth between Shirley and the "voices" in her head as she argued with herself. Old Shirley versus Viva Shirley. Shirley's imagination was very amusing, including her superwoman day dreams about making the men who had done her wrong pay for their treatment of her and other women.
But I felt like Shirley walked into a few situations that would have gotten her killed in real life, when her spunky attitude alone wouldn't have saved her. Some of the descriptions of violence and injuries were a bit graphic and gory. Conversely, there were only minimal descriptions of the setting. I prefer books with vividly described settings that add depth to a story, which I felt it was lacking in this book. The beginning of this book was a bit confusing, switching between various points of view made it hard to figure out how everything was connected.
But overall Shirley F'N Lyle is a fantastically entertaining novel that puts interesting characters in interesting situations. The drama that ensues is enthralling and ultimately uplifting.
