Book by Krol Torsten
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"A witty sendup of the anxieties that make Americans so dangerous...barbed with enough tragedy to sting.... A macabre farce, a la the Coen brothers."--Washington Post Book World
"Funny, suspenseful, scary and, most importantly, the best portrayal of an American Innocent since Forrest Gump."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"There's plenty to love.... Krol's best twist in a plot packed with them: our identification with his clumsy charmer becomes at once the scariest and most appealing thing about the book."--New York Times Book Review
"Callisto is an absolute joy and a rare pleasure. A work of stark raving genius. Imagine a collaboration by Sinclair Lewis, John Kennedy Toole, and Stephen Colbert--but funnier."--Adam Davies, author of The Frog King
"Callisto is wickedly well-plotted and just plain funny... Deefus is an extraordinary character...like a grown-up Holden Caulfield in a crueler, more dangerous world."--John Barlow, author of Eating Mammals and Intoxicated
"Torsten Krol pulls no punches with his modern farce.... He's crafted the perfect foil in Odell.... Callisto is a funny, smart and well-timed novel."--San Diego Union-Tribune
"Odell has one of those narrative voices that grabs you out of the gate and never lets go. Think The Good Soldier Swiek with a touch of Confederacy of Dunces and maybe even a little Catcher in the Rye."--Booklist (starred review)
"[Odell's] naïveté becomes a sharpened satirical tool as he confronts the flaws in the institutions he treasures... Readers...will enjoy the romp."--Publishers Weekly
Odell Deefus--not the sharpest tool in the shed--breaks down on the side of a country road on his way to an army enlistment office in Callisto, Kansas, but when a local offers Odell a place to stay until his truck is fixed, Odell's life goes from bad to worse as one mishap after another befalls the poor, unfortunate narrator. Original.
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