Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions John England This novel is based on

This novel is based on the incredible true story of the Shelton and Birger Gangs who built bootlegging empires that rivaled anything found in Al Capone's Chicago during the prohibition years of the 1920s

" - Matthew Henry "No treatise on The Lord's Table possesses more excellencies

from Elizabeth Taylor to Vivien Leigh to Janet Suzman to Judi Dench

an 'armchair detective' who acts as mentor to Lecoq and provides intellectual assistance to solve crimes without leaving his own bed

Published: 06/27/2000

Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions John England This novel is based onI finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby. Daniel Handler The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an