Publisher's Synopsis
Andy Willoughby takes us on another comic, post-Beat, mock epic, high-octane journey, this time from the three rivers of his native northeast to the crowded bars and cityscapes of Northern Europe. Inspired by Trout Fishing in America and the Finnish Lemminkäinen myth, Willoughby crosses the river Tees and the black river of the underworld in search of a literary form that will make sense of death. With a hangover looming, Kerouac and the Kalevala in his back pocket, the shades of Dante and Brautigan in his ears and an invisible gorilla in medical whites and pink ballet shoes lumbering behind him, he takes us to Hell and back.
