Tietam Brown by Mick Foley
In the world of WWF wrestling, Mick Foley is a legend. The author of two best-selling autobiographies, he has now written his first novel, a book of such brilliance that it will astonish the critics while delighting his millions of fans. Antietam (Andy) Brown - named for the great-great-grandfather who died on that Civil War battleground - was an overgrown ten-year-old when he killed his abusive foster father. Now, after 7 years in reform school, he is presumably free to make a new start as a student at Conestoga High School. But he is immediately thrust into the violent and debased life of his real father (known as Tietam) - an oddly charismatic man who seems addicted to bodybuilding, beer-swilling and 'bare-back riding', his words for his serial womanising. Swimming through a morass of crudity and violence (he's made an enemy of the football coach and his pack of steroid-pumped teens), Andy is stunned to find himself pursued by the high school homecoming queen - a born-again christian - and to discover that his father has a hidden cache of books on serious, even esoteric, subjects and a hidden past. Obsessed with the idea of offering his girlfriend a pure love and driven t\n\nReviews\n\nIn this compulsively readable first novel, 17-year-old "Andy"\nTietam Brown, named after the Civil War battle at Antietam, goes\nthrough several kinds of hell and lives to tell the tale. Andy, a\nnewcomer to his upstate New York town, is somewhat handicapped by a\nnonfunctioning left hand and a missing ear. But though he is the\ntarget of steroid-fed, football-playing bullies, he is lucky enough\nto become romantically involved with Terri, the Christian\ncheerleader beauty. As Andy recalls sordid and violent events from\nhis past in foster homes and juvenile detention centers, we learn\nthat his real father, a bizarre character with no visible means of\nsupport and perverse sexual habits, has only recently reunited with\nhis son and brought him home. After his father intervenes on Andy's\nbehalf with a demented history teacher, things start to look up,\nbut happiness and domestic tranquility are not part of the\nlandscape Foley envisions. Foley, a former pro wrestler and the\nauthor of several nonfiction works, knows how to spin an intriguing\nif somewhat offbeat tale. Recommended for popular fiction\ncollections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/03.]-Jim Coan, SUNY\nat Oneonta Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\n\nIf Freud and de Sade were to pen story lines for WWF Smackdown! the\nresult might be this lurid coming-of-age novel by Foley, a former\nprofessional wrestler and author of two bestselling memoirs, Foley\nIs Good and Have a Nice Day! Andy Brown is an archetypal high\nschool underdog, a misshapen, motherless misfit tormented by the\nfootball coach and tantalized by the minister's daughter. At home,\ndad Tietam is an alcoholic bodybuilding enthusiast who does nude\ncalisthenics in the living room in between noisy bedroom sessions\nwith a parade of three-night-stand women; he parents Andy by\noffering him beer, condoms and crude sexual pointers. As Andy\nlearns about manhood from dubious role models, first-time novelist\nFoley finds adult fiction a truly unrefereed arena where the\nwrestling sensibility can break free of PG-13 constraints. The\nboisterous narrative fluctuates between bawdy picaresque and\nepisodes of berserk violence full of smashed teeth, crushed\ntracheas, gouged eyes, sudden, tables-turning castration and\nheterosexual, homosexual, pedophilic and incestuous varieties of\nrape. The cartoonish characters are Oedipal tag teams battling for\nAndy's soul; every man is a bully or a pervert, every woman a\nsentimentalized madonna/whore duality ruined by male predation.\nFoley is not much of a stylist. He mingles villainous trash-talk\ndialogue and stilted sexual banter ("I'll admit right now to being\nsomewhat distracted by the pleasant tingling in my penile area") in\na Rabelaisian tone as self-conscious and overbearing as a large man\nin tiny trunks. But readers in the mood for vigorous pulp may enjoy\nthis steroid-fueled brawl. (July 8) Forecast: The fans who\ncatapulted Foley to the top of nonfiction bestseller lists may not\nbe quite as eager to sample his fiction, but there should be enough\ncrossover to keep sales lively. Readers unaware of Foley's WWF fame\nmay enjoy him as a novelist in the vein of Chuck Palahniuk. 150,000\nfirst printing; 13-city author tour. Copyright 2003 Reed Business\nInformation.
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Published by: Jonathan Cape Ltd: , 2012
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