and that will make all the difference. Joseph Oliver Kuhl and Mr. Putzi Purge are significant players in this story but neither realizes that fact. |
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ISBN 0-7414-0285-8 5.5 X 8.5 in., 231pp. Perfectbound: $14.95 Flesch Readability Ease: 75.2 Flesch-Kincaid Level: 5.9 |
Investor/developer Putzi Purge plans to build The Klongs at the town of Balona, pines for a driver's license so he can drive his new Testarossa. Sheriff Anson Chaud despises Putzi, plots to "get something on" the discreetly gay foreign-born developer. Joseph Oliver Kuhl, sixteen-year-old secret agent in training, is the only member of his Big Baloney class whose unlikable mother still won't approve driver's training for her kid. Putzi's and Joe's automotive aspirations converge to incite a murder that puzzles and disappoints even the murderer.
Teachers, Librarians, Parents, Grandparents:
The score on our SMUTSCALE INDEX [0--10] 
for The Balona Klongs is about a "3+" (for hinting
and for a couple of vulgar words used by vulgar types).
Here is part of a scene from The Balona Klongs. Kenworth Kuhl is an eminently unsuccessful real estate agent. Here he is contemplating life in general--and a specific image which may or may not be real:
The magpie is suddenly there on the roof of the garage. Just squatting there looking at him. Then it's gone. Darn thing. Too late in the year for actual magpies around here, or too early. For the life of him, Kenworth has not been able to determine whether the bird is real or a figment of his imagination. The big black bird with the yellow beak and the white-banded wings appears maybe twice or three times a week now. Often it's standing big as all life in the middle of the road as Kenworth drives toward it.
At other times he sees it from the kitchen window or the bedroom window, perched there on the fence, or the roof of the woodshed or the garage, just looking at Kenworth, and once in a while silently, rhythmically opening and closing its beak, almost as if it were chewing Dubble Bubble. Sometimes it seems to Kenworth that the bird is trying to tell him something but doesn't quite know how. “Well,”says Kenworth Kuhl to nobody in particular, “keep trying. I need all the help I can get.”
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