Author(s): Stephen Dixon

Novel | Fiction Reductions

Rudy, a good-hearted fellow in New York, has been trying to phone Kevin Wafer, a kid he knows in Palo Alto, California. Only trouble is, one thing or another keeps getting in the way. For starters, Rudy doesn't have a phone in his apartment, and he can't manage to get a dial tone on his pillow or his alarm clock. When he tries to use a pay phone, the phone booth gets carried off by a crane, deposited in a warehouse and left with Rudy trapped inside. It's an absurdist, screwball farce and certainly Stephen Dixon's wildest and weirdest book ever.