Carrier, Arthur D.
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"The Beer-Barrel Waltz" is a rollicking slice-of-life tale centering around the exploits and drunken philosophizing of a colorful cast of protagonists
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, one or the other of whom variably fancy themselves artists, poets, thinkers, arbiters of taste and/or guardians of public morality. Based upon the author's misadventures in Chicago's famed Old Town in the early 1960s -- years before that neighborhood became a hippie cliche -- "Waltz" is both a loving tribute to the author's hometown and a rude, beer-sodden, unapologetically frank (read: 'politically incorrect') rumination on life, love, and the very nature of all that which we term 'art.' In a style reminiscent of the uncompromising prose of Bukowski and Hemingway, Carrier takes us inside this funhouse of proudly opinionated and chauvinistic phonies and poseurs to offer a serious, but darkly humorous look at what makes artists -- and would-be artists -- tick.
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