ISBN: 0312420161 9780312420161

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 225

Moving between New York City in the 1990s and North Carolina in the 1960s, Orange Laughter tells the story of Tony Pellar, a man of former style and fading beauty, who has fled to the subway tunnels beneath New York. While fighting madness and fleeing a terrifying, ghostly pursuer whom he calls the Soul Snatcher, Tony makes an even more perilous interior journey, convinced that the key to his sanity lies in retracing the events of his North Carolina childhood. As Tony's memories return, the stories of both his childhood friend Mikey and of Agatha, a complex woman with a disfigured face, weave through his own. All three stories finally come together against the backdrop of the civil rights movement in a heartrending and haunting climax.