Songs From Richmond Avenue, A Houston Love Story, With A Few Beers And A Couple Of Dead Bodies
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The bar could boast its share of violent drunks year-round, but the gambling crowd with its hodgepodge of penny-ante wager fiends and bag men operated in sleaze.
Houston, Texas (PRUnderground) November 30th, 2016
Songs From Richmond Avenue by Michael Reed, offers an off-kilter, satirical take on big-city misfits, the bars they frequent and the occasional, albeit, misguided quest for something better.
For the blurry-eyed denizens of the Relix Club and our narrator, a serially employed journalist with questionable work ethics, whiling away the hours engaged in their two favorite activities – drinking and betting on just about anything – is a pretty good life. That is until he meets pretty Michelle, a woman who he declares has “skin so perfect I doubted she even had pores.”
Could she be his salvation, he wonders. Maybe, but not until after he completes an alcohol-fueled urban odyssey involving Michelle’s nihilist stripper roommate, a paramilitary Buddhist barfly, a pair of dumber-than-dirt, debt-collecting hoodlums, and the usual ration of Bayou City sweat and torrential rain.
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About the author: Michael Reed is a Texas journalist whose extensive, though at the time, completely unintended, research into the many facets of Houston’s dive bar scene provided him with the requisite background material for this book. This is the Southern Illinois University graduate’s first novel.
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