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The Anomalies
In a small town in Kentucky, five outsiders have come together: an eighty-year-old woman who walks around in cowboy boots and a Sex Pistols t-shirt; a beautiful woman in a wheelchair; a young Iraqi searching for the American soldier who wounded him in the First Gulf War; a precocious young girl; and an extremely articulate African American, who seems to be constantly on drugs but in reality makes his way through life completely sober. Wherever the five freaks show up, people laugh at them. The passion that unites them is music, their shared dream is to conquer the world with their music, and together they form the power-pop new-wave heavy-metal punk-rock band known as THE FREAKS. In the words of their lead singer, »The only way to make this a better place would be for God to drop the bomb.« Alone they are only outsiders, but as a group they might just be the bomb that God does not want to drop …
208 pages
2006
978-3-257-06546-6
World rights are handled by Diogenes
»Young Joey Goebel is a born writer, one of those fated originals upon whose brainpan the mad language elves have drummed with their rubidium wands. Brutally insightful, ferociously funny – yet somehow strangely touching – The Anomalies is the freshest novel so far of the twenty-first century.«
»As the Anaomalies rise to a sort of fame, Goebel ensures that we the conventional realize, if not our predictability, then at least the necessity of heeding the unpredictable - the uncommon, in those we mights otherwise dismiss as misfits, quirks, oddballs. Rock on.«