num_pages: 221
description: Here's the first novel from ULA PRESS, the publishing arm of the world's most exciting literary activist group (see LiteraryRevolution.com for more info). It was first published as seven issues of a very popular zeen. So it has already proven its mettle! The PFE is a comedic novel about a garage rock band in a college town. It's told from the point of view of the band members who are all housemates. So it's a house novel, too. But unlike most rock and roll novels---which tell the story of a band rising to stardom---Emus is the story of a local band that never makes it big but rocks on anyway. The author is a longtime garage rocker himself. Possibly because of this the book has an interesting layout. It's set up in a musical way. Each chapter title has an A-side/B-side and a lead-in. The 4 main bandmembers/housemates then each tell a story which is labeled as an intro, verse, or chorus. There's a coda to wrap things up. A new person in the chapter gets to do a middle eight. But that's not all: each of the main housemate/voices gets his own typeface which sets his story apart. The bandmates live their own lives but who ever sees similar events in the same way? As is the rule with ULA PRESS projects, the PFE is more realistic, fresher, bolder---and thus funnier---than somewhat related work by big publishers. It's also bawdier and perhaps rougher, as if a real person wrote it instead of a committee buffed by profs and backed up by lawyers. ULA PRESS offers vital lit again for a change.
title: The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus
titlecomplete: The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus
ratings_count: 8
publisher: ULA Press