The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

Description

Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings--best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university, writes lush, lyrical poems when he's not blocked--which, these days, is nearly always.When the gorgeous, mysterious Sherem shows up in E-Town decked out in desert finery, Hamza's creative spark is ignited. Who is this sophisticated woman that speaks arcane African tongues, quotes from obscure comics and Star Wars movies, yet seems somehow too ethereal for the world Hamza inhabits? And what is the lost artifact that she and a cast of coiffed collectors and criminal cultists so desperately seek? As Hamza falls blindly in love with Sherem, little does he know that he and Yehat play the biggest part of all in the recovery of the ancient relic--and in the future of all living beings. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.

Description

Hungry for adventure, two young slackers find more than they bargained for in their quest for a mystical Egyptian artifact, a search that is challenged by a host of dangerous adversaries and numerous mysterious occurrences.

First Sentence

CUE THEME MUSIC: "FE FE NAA EFE" BY FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI. Badass Nigerian horns and Afrobeat drumming funk-James Brown's Jurassic DNA blasted balls first into the future.

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Other Editions

• The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor PadPaperbackDel Rey2004-08-03
• The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor PadeBookRandom House Publishing Group2004-01-01
• Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor PadTandem Library2004-08-01