COMING IN AUGUST FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER ( Duck Duck Wally: A Novel .)
Get Shorty meets The Big Lebowski in this rollicking modern comedy by a clever and hilarious newcomer.
Meet Wally Moscowitz. He’s not a geisha or a boy wizard or a single chick living in the city and buying shoes and being totally fucking cooler than you'll ever be. He’s just an overweight, thirty-something putz whose only ambition in life is getting his dirty children’s book published. But boy, does he have a story to tell.
Wally’s day job is TOP SECRET. As ghostwriter for Oral B, the most famous gangsta rapper in the world, Wally is the real mastermind behind Godz-Illa Records’ best-selling artist, and the best-kept secret in the Industry. But if word gets out about Wally’s true profession, Godz-Illa’s kajillion-dollar rap empire will be sunk, and Wally will be dead meat.
When Wally comes home one particularly bizarre afternoon to find a ransom note and his best friend and dog, Dr. Schwartzman, missing, Wally goes to great lengths to stop the dognappers, while keeping the big secret under wraps. He must, if he wants to walk away with his job, not to mention his life, intact.
The hunt for Dr. Schwartzman and the blackmailing thug who is trying to reveal hip-hop’s biggest conspiracy becomes a wild goose chase and media circus in which everyone becomes a suspect: Sue Schadenfreude, Wally’s girlfriend who makes a pretty penny massaging Barbra Streisand’s Papillion, Yenta; Pardeep Vishvatma, Wally’s neighbor who keeps a watchful eye on all the suspicious characters looming about the hood; Jerry Silver, Wally’s slick-rick, self-styled super agent; Abraham “Dandy†Lyons, Wally’s boss and Godz-Illa CEO bad-ass with Suge Knight’s street cred and Tony Soprano’s “friendsâ€; Jem, the fiery, achingly-familiar vixen who steals Wally’s heart; Yo Yo Pa and Teddy Bizzle, Oral B’s entourage; and the mysterious mob crew: Five-two Lou, Six-seven Kevin and Balsamic Vinny, who show up when Wally needs them most.
Duck Duck Wally is a hilarious romp through the absurdities of Los Angeles, the bombastic details of hip-hop culture, and a day in the life of what was supposed to be the painfully ordinary existence of Wally Moscowitz.
"I thought I was funny. But after reading 'Duck Duck Wally', I'm not funny at all. Gabe Rotter is. (Even his name sounds funny.)"
--chuck barris, author of "confessions of a dangerous mind" and "the big question."
"Gabe Rotter will remake the current political landscape with this trenchant, insightful, and authoritative analysis of America's policy agenda. Okay, he won't. But Wally Moscowitz for President."
--ariana huffington, author of "on becoming fearless" and co-founder of "the huffington post."
"I thoroughly enjoyed the hilarious, original, and very strange Duck Duck Wally. Gabe Rotter is hugely talented, extremely funny, and, I suspect, a complete lunatic -- a lunatic who sure can rhyme. Read this book fo shizzle."
-- Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files
"'Duck Duck Wally' brilliantly exploits the absurdities of modern pop culture. Rotter's menagerie of oddball characters will have readers hooked from page one."
--brad listi, author of "attention.deficit.disorder."
"In addition to being a kick-ass debut novel, Duck Duck Wally is a complete
abs work-out that will tone and tighten your entire core! I haven't laughed
this hard in a long time."
—Will Clarke, author of THE WORTHY: A GHOST'S STORY
