To: zonkie who wrote (25246 ) 10/26/2000 6:20:36 PM From: zonkie Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 26163 Don't forget tomorrow's the official release date. Watch the best sellers list. Amazon.com sales rank as of today 1,221,589. Watch it soar. This would make a great stocking stuffer. _______________________ Kingdom Come Trade Paperback, 156 Pages, iPublisher, October 2000 ISBN: 1587360136 Author: Dobry , Gary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject / Style: Fiction & Literature : General Reviews: "Gary Dobry's writing is like a good hit of opium...seductive, tough, and surprising. Once you inhale, you'll exhale and be back for more!" (Jay Marvin, Author of Punk Blood from FC2 and Talk Show Host on WLS Radio in Chicago) "The pages of Dobry's novel are flooded with more blood and sperm poetry than any established author would dare to attempt." (Zak Mucha, Author of Beggar's Shore and Freelance Writer) "Gary is a talented, hard working artist. His work is always strong!" (Ed Paschke, Artist and Professor at Northwestern University) Description: A championship fight is twelve rounds and it's in the championship rounds, rounds eleven and twelve, where one finds one's self and sees things for what they are. Cut-men and Guardian Angels can stop the bleeding for only so long. Boxing is the author's metaphor, "Know thy enemy." Petroleum jelly plugs up gaping wounds for only three minutes at a time. How much punishment can one endure before one realizes it's a fight to the death? Kingdom Come was written for a "worthy opponent." About the Author: Gary Dobry retired from the ring in 1998. He is the owner of Pug's Boxing Gym located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He is a painter and a writer. Dobry studied at the Université de Paris, earned his Diplôme de Français at the Sorbonne and was kicked out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after having been accepted on the strength of a reference letter from the world renown Ed Paschke. He busked the streets of Paris with Chicago Blues legend, 'Bumble-Bee' Bobby Novak before returning to Chicago where his paintings came to the attention of collector, gallery owner and art dealer, Judy A Saslow, who represents the artist. Dobry has shown with the likes of Ed Paschke and Andy Warhol. Excerpt: Dark clouds shroud the rues and boulevards of the fourteenth arrondissement. Scattered drops of phlegm and buttermilk run greasy across old dirty windows and, in the heat, steam rises from wet pavement and evaporates into a mist. Power punches bongo beat the heavy bag drum. Beads of sweat explode on wooden floor planks that absorb the rap-a-tap-tap of jumping rope and shuffling feet. Resin on smooth leather souls grip the tarp. The metronome ten-count stops at eight and cut men tend to wounds doctors can't treat. A good cut man is worth his weight in gold. There is no one more important than he who stops bleeding. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------