"The experience of orgasm is one of life's best jokes. The apex of ecstasy lasts for a single second...and afterwards you're worthless. If you happen to be with a woman, you want to be alone. If you're by yourself, you feel lousy. But you can't stop chasing down that climax, again and again and again." [Mark SaFranko, 'Lounge Lizard']
Ronald Reagan has just been elected president, and Max Zajack can't make it out the door. Trying to recover from Olivia ('Hating Olivia'), Max hasn't had sex in years, suffers from writer's block, and is mired in debt. But Max's luck changes and, as the corporate machine pulls him in, he begins meeting all kinds of women ready and willing to jump into bed with him. Money and sex are enough for any man...or are they?
'Lounge Lizard' is the much-anticipated sequel to 'Hating Olivia'. Once again, it features an introduction by Dan Fante, where he recognises Mark SaFranko as "one hardnosed, kick-ass, American original."
"Echoes of Dan Fante's Bruno Dante permeate SaFranko's brilliant follow-up to 'Hating Olivia', which is as honest and readable as its predecessor. Each page reflects the personality of a writer who can see a poetic beauty in the most mundane of experiences - suggesting SaFranko can hold his own with Miller, Fante (John and Dan) and Bukowski."
--- James Doorne (Bizarre Magazine - Issue 133)
"Could 'Lounge Lizard' possibly live up to the brilliance of 'Hating Olivia'? A book I considered to be one of the finest published this century. Or would it be like the sequel of many Hollywood blockbusters, which generally speaking usually turn out to be nothing more than damp squibs? Well fear not... 'Lounge Lizard' is a rollicking read, packed with taut sentences, sparkling dialogue, and guaranteed to blow your mind wide open. Against all the odds SaFranko has pulled off the rarely achieved feat of equalling the brilliance of the original and 'Lounge Lizard' matches its mighty predecessor page for page and word for word and grabs the reader by the balls from the first page in."
--- Joseph Ridgwell ('Bookmunch')
Ronald Reagan has just been elected president, and Max Zajack can't make it out the door. Trying to recover from Olivia ('Hating Olivia'), Max hasn't had sex in years, suffers from writer's block, and is mired in debt. But Max's luck changes and, as the corporate machine pulls him in, he begins meeting all kinds of women ready and willing to jump into bed with him. Money and sex are enough for any man...or are they?
'Lounge Lizard' is the much-anticipated sequel to 'Hating Olivia'. Once again, it features an introduction by Dan Fante, where he recognises Mark SaFranko as "one hardnosed, kick-ass, American original."
"Echoes of Dan Fante's Bruno Dante permeate SaFranko's brilliant follow-up to 'Hating Olivia', which is as honest and readable as its predecessor. Each page reflects the personality of a writer who can see a poetic beauty in the most mundane of experiences - suggesting SaFranko can hold his own with Miller, Fante (John and Dan) and Bukowski."
--- James Doorne (Bizarre Magazine - Issue 133)
"Could 'Lounge Lizard' possibly live up to the brilliance of 'Hating Olivia'? A book I considered to be one of the finest published this century. Or would it be like the sequel of many Hollywood blockbusters, which generally speaking usually turn out to be nothing more than damp squibs? Well fear not... 'Lounge Lizard' is a rollicking read, packed with taut sentences, sparkling dialogue, and guaranteed to blow your mind wide open. Against all the odds SaFranko has pulled off the rarely achieved feat of equalling the brilliance of the original and 'Lounge Lizard' matches its mighty predecessor page for page and word for word and grabs the reader by the balls from the first page in."
--- Joseph Ridgwell ('Bookmunch')
