Tony Vicar is setting his sights on new (mis)adventures in this laugh-out-loud follow-up to The Liquor Vicar.
Tony Vicar, now an internationally known celebrity — due to greatly exaggerated news reports of his nearly miraculous powers — has turned his attention to renovating his recently inherited crumbling old hotel in the wacky town of Tyee Lagoon. It’s a good thing his level-headed girlfriend, Jacquie O, is on board to temper his more outlandish ideas, because the pair plan to turn the hotel’s dumpy old beer parlour into the Vicar’s Knickers — a lavish and beautiful pub.
Of course, building a tiny empire is not without challenges, shocks, oppositions, and calamities. Vicar’s celebrity is threatened as he is assailed by Hollywood gossip journalist Richard X. Dick — a cynic determined to undermine Vicar at every turn. On top of that, a surprise that changes everything is unexpectedly left on Vicar and Jacquie O’s doorstep late one night in a heavy blizzard.
Vicar feels the pressure mounting and fears he may be cracking. He’s beginning to see and hear things that simply cannot be accounted for. Surrounded by forces both invisible and all too obvious, he must tackle the greatest misadventure of his life: parenthood.
Tony Vicar, now an internationally known celebrity — due to greatly exaggerated news reports of his nearly miraculous powers — has turned his attention to renovating his recently inherited crumbling old hotel in the wacky town of Tyee Lagoon. It’s a good thing his level-headed girlfriend, Jacquie O, is on board to temper his more outlandish ideas, because the pair plan to turn the hotel’s dumpy old beer parlour into the Vicar’s Knickers — a lavish and beautiful pub.
Of course, building a tiny empire is not without challenges, shocks, oppositions, and calamities. Vicar’s celebrity is threatened as he is assailed by Hollywood gossip journalist Richard X. Dick — a cynic determined to undermine Vicar at every turn. On top of that, a surprise that changes everything is unexpectedly left on Vicar and Jacquie O’s doorstep late one night in a heavy blizzard.
Vicar feels the pressure mounting and fears he may be cracking. He’s beginning to see and hear things that simply cannot be accounted for. Surrounded by forces both invisible and all too obvious, he must tackle the greatest misadventure of his life: parenthood.
Authors
- Pages
- 328
- Published in
- Toronto, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Praise for The Vicar’s Knickers 3
- Praise for The Liquor Vicar 4
- Half Title Page 5
- Title Page 7
- Copyright 8
- Dedication 9
- Prologue / March 1970 / Tyee Lagoon, BC, Canada 11
- Part I 15
- One / Present Day with a Side of Apocalypse Then 17
- Two / Kiss Me, Hardy 24
- Three / Knickers Innards 28
- Four / Pink 42
- Five / Waugh Waugh Waugh 46
- Six / "Puttin' on the Ritz" 52
- Seven / Black Mass 61
- Eight / Hello, Larry 66
- Nine / Richard X. Dick 73
- Ten / Exhaust Flames 78
- Eleven / A Match Made in Heaven 83
- Twelve / She Wouldn't Have a Willy or a Sam 89
- Thirteen / Opposable Thumbs 95
- Fourteen / Irresistible Force with Bacon 100
- Fifteen / Scoobied 109
- Sixteen / Enigma Code 111
- Seventeen / The Great Cosmic Circle 115
- Eighteen / A Death So Fowl / Easter 1970 120
- Nineteen / The Great Dictator 124
- Twenty / The Compleat Dick 130
- Twenty-One / A Cache of Cash 139
- Twenty-Two / Dewlaps and Dunlops 143
- Twenty-Three / Dreams 147
- Twenty-Four / In No Way Akin to a Nurse Shark 156
- Part II 161
- Twenty-Five / A Babe in the Woods 163
- Twenty-Six / Pan Pan 169
- Twenty-Seven / Cute as a Baby';s Bum 181
- Twenty-Eight / Starry, Starry Night 186
- Twenty-Nine / Ladies and Gentlemen, Will You Please Welcome ... 190
- Thirty / Wishes Granted by the Gross 208
- Thirty-One / Sweet Freedom 211
- Thirty-Two / The Chicken and Mr. Ghost 219
- Thirty-Three / Unearthing the Unearthly 223
- Thirty-Four / Cosmic Ray Reads the Room 232
- Thirty-Five / Trippin' Balls 237
- Part III 247
- Thirty-Six / Burnin' Love 249
- Thirty-Seven / Two Frankies and One Valentine 259
- Thirty-Eight / Fire Proof 275
- Thirty-Nine / The Feels of Wheat 280
- Forty / Junk in the Trunk 286
- Forty-One / Unleash the Semi-Retired Kraken 299
- Forty-Two / Ann Tenna Receives Signal 304
- Forty-Three / Paper Trail 311
- Forty-Four / My God, Jim 317
- Forty-Five / Blowing in the Wind 320
- Acknowledgements 325
- About the Author 329
- Back Cover 332