Zack O'Neill

Blue Stoop Zack O'Neill

This dark and comic literary fiction combines the biblical character Adam with the American West's mythical frontier rover, and traps him in a contaminated Eden. Set in New Orleans, the story is narrated by Adam, who after being cheated, robbed, and beaten in a crooked poker game, is kicked out of his French Quarter apartment by his girlfriend; soon he finds himself thrust into a world of drunks, gamblers, idiot tourists, roach-infested bedrooms, poker games in graveyards, homeless people eating chicken for breakfast, and abandoned houses haunted by giant vultures, among other things...