The Last Days of Video [electronic resource] : A Novel
Hawkins, Jeremy2015
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Well that grumpy guy is Waring Wax, and he’s usually too drunk to worry about his declining business at Star Video, let alone his quickly evolving extinction in popular culture. But everything changes in his small college town when a bright and shiny Blockbuster Video opens nearby: Clearly, this means war.So, Waring enlists the help of his two reluctant employees, wildly sexy Alaura and desperate virgin Jeffwho are almost as nuts as he isto hatch a series of wild schemes to save their little store and fight against the corporate invaders. Together, these three misfits try to save Star Video while confronting, among other things, Waring’s self-destructive tendencies, a life training cult, corporate bicycle gangs, and a Hollywood director who constantly sees the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock while in town shooting his latest film.The Last Days of Video is a hilarious elegy for a bygone era, a quirky and charming story of redemption for a group of.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Soft Skull Press, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781619025189
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English
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2550440