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Bleeding Gut Blues
by
S. Fitts (Goodreads Author)
Ellis O’Neill, a young drifter withdrawn from the world, is subsisting at the base of the Pyramid of Needs. He wakes up on a lawn in southern Illinois with just enough recollection of the night before to get him to a bus station, Cincinnati, and Danny, his last friend and makeshift brother, waiting with a sedan pointed two thousand, two hundred miles west.
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Paperback, First, 408 pages
Published
February 13th 2012
by Hail Bob! Press
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What would you do if you found out your girlfriend was cheating on you?
If you are Ellis O’Neill, the main character of S Fitts’ Bleeding Gut Blues, you split town to become a drunken hobo, and spend a year roaming from college town to college town robbing university parties for booze, bits of cash, and occasionally drugs.
You are skinny and pale. You have a disfiguring scar that snakes across your face. Your hair is too long. You smell bad.
Your only valuable possessions are a photograph of your p...more
If you are Ellis O’Neill, the main character of S Fitts’ Bleeding Gut Blues, you split town to become a drunken hobo, and spend a year roaming from college town to college town robbing university parties for booze, bits of cash, and occasionally drugs.
You are skinny and pale. You have a disfiguring scar that snakes across your face. Your hair is too long. You smell bad.
Your only valuable possessions are a photograph of your p...more
This is one of those books where I read the blurb, and had a feeling it’d be the book for me. Not too long after starting to read Bleeding Gut Blues I didn’t just feel that it’d be the book for me, I KNEW it was the book for me. I was instantly sucked into the story and barely realized that I had flipped fifty pages so quickly.
I instantly related to the main character, Ellis. This was almost to the point where I felt like I was him. I felt like I had much in common personality-wise and how that...more
I instantly related to the main character, Ellis. This was almost to the point where I felt like I was him. I felt like I had much in common personality-wise and how that...more
I can't say enough about this book...the characters were so relatable, I felt like they were my friends. Excellent read!
Nov 28, 2012
S.M. Boyce
marked it as not-my-cup-of-tea
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literary-fiction,
contemporary-fiction
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Transplanted in Rhode Island since 2000, S Fitts is the author of Bleeding Gut Blues and keyboard player for punk bands Almost Blind and Drunk Robb & the Shots.
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