IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH by Neil A Randall is published
Released on = January 16, 2007, 4:39 am
Press Release Author = Neil A. Randall
Industry = Entertainment
Press Release Summary = The main theme running through this parabolic tale of excess is that of identity in contemporary society, of people wanting to be somebody, a celebrity, a success, or to obtain a position in the world that they forget to be themselves.
Press Release Body = The multi-layered narrative journey combines the darkly comic with the patently absurd as a young man attempts to escape the drudgery of his life in between the thin line that separates self justification from self capitulation, on realizing that: '.the worst thing in life to be is just like everybody else.' Six months later, the young man is dead. Someone or thing, from deep within a now defunct psyche, wants to know why..
About the Author: Neil A. Randall currently has no fixed abode but despite this is presently working on a follow-up to this novel which is entitled The Clerk.
Excerpt from the book: "The boy could never be really sure if that was the specific moment in time when he first knew that he wanted to be a football player, after all, the vast majority of young boys of similar age want to be footballers when they grow up. Or whether it was just the sense of not wanting to be like everybody else, not normal in any way and this elegant, bearded player seemed to embody everything that wasn't average or commonplace in the world that he lived. He hailed from a far off, mystical sounding place called Argentina; he wore a beard; could do things with a football that ordinary people couldn't dream of doing, and he transcended the dreary sounding locations that everybody roundly despised, like work and school. And this was when the six year-old boy realized the worst thing in life to be is just like everybody else.."
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