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THE THIRD COMEDY NOVEL
FROM JOSHUA HUMPHREYS...
joshua humphreys, writer, author, "joshua humphreys writer", "joshua humphreys author", Australia, comedy novels, novelist, funny, Australian, writer, joshua, humphreys, funniest books, exquisite hours, the creative art of wishfulness, Preah Khan, Grieve, comedy novel, siem reap, angkor wat, joshua humphreys
THE THIRD COMEDY NOVEL
FROM JOSHUA HUMPHREYS...
HECTOR GRIEVE
IS A HELLRAISING
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
Protecting on horseback the ruins of Angkor, he gives bloodthirsty speeches to his men, drinks hallucinogenic whiskey by the bottle,
and boasts of being the greatest lover
that Angelina Jolie has ever had.
But when he's told that he is broke and that his father is dying, Hector has no choice but to return to Melbourne, where he finds himself bored, outdated, and—once again—
the angriest young man in the world...
HECTOR GRIEVE IS A HELLRAISING SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
Protecting on horseback the ruins of Angkor,
he gives bloodthirsty speeches to his men, drinks hallucinogenic
whiskey by the bottle, & boasts of being the greatest
lover that Angelina Jolie has ever had.
But when he's told that he's broke and that his father is dying,
Hector has no choice but to return to Melbourne,
where he finds himself bored, outdated, and
— once again —
the angriest young man in the world.
While wrangling with self-serve checkouts and parking inspectors—and trying to revive a high-school
romance whose intensity he has grossly
misremembered—Hector gets wind
of a stash of gold belonging
to Australia’s billionaires.
Seeing in that immoral wealth
an adventure to rival his Cambodian exploits
he resolves to steal it all, and reunites his Cambodian
orphan-soldiers as he transforms himself into a
furiously anti-modern modern-day Robin Hood
While wrangling with self-serve checkouts and parking inspectors—and trying to revive a high-school romance whose intensity he has grossly misremembered—Hector gets wind of a stash of gold belonging to Australia’s billionaires.
Seeing in that immoral wealth
an adventure to rival his Cambodian exploits he resolves to steal it all, and reunites his Cambodian orphan-soldiers as he transforms himself into a furiously anti-modern modern-day Robin Hood
Its story contains ten horses,
two pangolins, a unicorn & a peacock,
several aspiring mermaids, a super yacht,
Jonah Hill, three 1000-year-old temples,
a bank raid, two assassinations,
a novel in Chinglish, a Holocaust survivor,
the drugging of an entire office,
a cannon mounted on a tuk-tuk,
a velociraptor, a hammer-wielding dwarf,
and a man called Elvis.
Its story contains ten horses,
two pangolins,
a unicorn & a peacock,
several aspiring mermaids,
a super yacht, Jonah Hill,
three 1000-year-old temples,
a bank raid, two assassinations,
a novel in Chinglish, a Holocaust survivor, the drugging of an entire office, a cannon mounted
on a tuk-tuk, a velociraptor,
a hammer-wielding dwarf,
and a man called Elvis.
I travelled 3 times to Siem Reap to
research its opening chapters
and wrote most of it in my—and Hector's—hometown: Melbourne.
Released in 2017, GRIEVE is story of change, anger, & action;
and if Exquisite Hours
is champagne,
GRIEVE is hallucinogenic whiskey on the cantankerous rocks.
I travelled 3 times to Siem Reap to research its opening chapters
and wrote it in my—and Hector's—hometown: Melbourne.
Released in 2017,
GRIEVE is story of change, anger, & action;
and if Exquisite Hours is champagne,
GRIEVE is hallucinogenic whiskey
on the cantankerous rocks.
A COMEDY NOVEL
A COMEDY NOVEL
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