Budding Prospects: A Pastoral (Contemporary American Fiction)

ISBN: 0140299963

Author: Boyle, T.C.

Condition: New

An irresistible (Los Angeles Times), riotous (The Seattle Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla CurtainConsistently, effortlessly, intelligently funny.-The New York TimesAll Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they havent reckoned on nosy Northern California-style neighbors, torrential rain, demands of the flesh, and Felixs improbable new love, a wayward sculptress on whose behalf he undertakes a one-man vendetta against a drug-busting state trooper named Jerpbak. As their deal escalates through crises into nightmare, their dreams of easy money get nipped in the bud.