Two Little Boys

Description

Title: Two Little Boys
Author: Duncan Sarkies
Publisher: Penguin New Zealand
Format: Paperback
Condition: Very Good — slight discolouration to pages

Description:

This book has got a lot of good bits.

It’s got bogans and penguins and toasted sandwiches and spotting knives.
It’s got a dead cat and a really little dolphin.
It’s got hundreds of hard-ons.
It’s got sea lions.
It’s got God.
It’s got a really cool lighthouse.

When Nige runs over a Norwegian backpacker while attempting to save petrol, his life really turns to shit. He chucks the body in a nearby road works and runs to his best mate of fifteen years, Deano. Trouble is, Deano’s not really the guy you should turn to in a crisis.

That is the setup. What follows is a dark comedy of male friendship and catastrophic incompetence set in Invercargill and Bluff — a bizarre debacle from start to thrilling finish.

Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords put his name to it on the front cover: “Twisted, surprising and very very very funny. Did I put too many verys? I don’t think so.” Fiona Farrell — one of New Zealand’s most significant novelists — is even more direct: “This is the most amazing book. It’s dark, wildly funny, vivid, and brilliantly original.”

Duncan Sarkies wrote the screenplay for Scarfies (1999) and the award-winning Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds. His brother Robert adapted this novel as a film in 2012, with Bret McKenzie and Hamish Blake. Duncan is from Dunedin. The lighthouse is real.

Why We Stock It:

The Southland dark comedy tradition at its most committed — two fundamentally useless men, a dead Norwegian, the end of the road, and God. Endorsed by Jemaine Clement and Fiona Farrell. Out of print. Exactly the kind of thing you didn’t know you needed until you find it.