Is Fat Bob Dead Yet? Quotes

“When disappointment becomes central to your life, it’s like a religion. It takes up all your spiritual space. Are you Baptist? Are you Methodist? No, I’m Disappointed.”
― Stephen Dobyns, Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?: A Novel

“She had a large mouth and full, sensuous lips that Connor thought would be ugly when she got angry, like an activated wood chipper.”
― Stephen Dobyns, Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?: A Novel

“He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It’s the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he’s an accountant and works at a place downtown. He’s really dead?” “Well,” says Manny, “I didn’t check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.”
― Stephen Dobyns, Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?: A Novel

“Rossi was killed on a motorcycle this morning on Bank Street. He was cut in half. I need to notify his next of kin, and you’re going to help me find them.” “Cut in half?” says a man standing by the door of a small office. The studied blankness of the men’s faces changes to shock and focused attention, which again gives them a resemblance. “Maybe he was broken into a hundred pieces, but the top half and the bottom half were the biggest chunks,” says Manny. “And we can’t find his head.” The men wince. This evidence of human feeling warms the detectives.”
― Stephen Dobyns, Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?: A Novel