Skirt and the fiddle
By: Tristan Egolf.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Rats -- Control -- Fiction.; Lodging-houses -- Fiction.; Violinists -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Charlie Evans is a brilliant violinist who, embittered by a truly horrendous gig, has kissed the fiddle and the entire straight world goodbye. Dreaming of skipping town, he lives in a flophouse among misfits like Armless Rob, Emmy Lou Mattressback, and Tinsel Greetz, an ersatz anarchist and 200-proof charlatan.

Mutually antagonistic and joined at the shot glass, Tinsel and Charlie nevertheless make a great team, and when they get a highly illegal, extremely lucrative gig killing rats in the sewers, they are a deadly, unstoppable force. The morning after dissipating their hard-earned money, the boys wake up in a strange (five-star!) hotel room with the worst hangovers of their lives.

And when Charlie meets the bewitching Louise, who's offered them shelter - well, then he's in trouble of a whole new sort."--BOOK JACKET.