The Golden Calf by Henry Baum

    Binding:
    Perfect Bound
    Dimensions:
    5.5"x8.5"
    Page Count:
    180
    ISBN:
    0977605159
    Author:
    Henry Baum
    Cover Artist:
    Keith Rosson

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About

Ray Tompkins is the kind of person you never get to know. He’s the security guard, the factory worker, the man working the midnight shift. Nobody really understands Ray – not his coworkers, not his family, and certainly not the women in his life. There is a rage building inside Ray Tompkins and Los Angeles is the fuel – the sick obsession with celebrity mixed with the vacuousness of everyday life. Against this backdrop, Ray Tompkins finds a way to vent his anger. He, too, will be known…

Praise for The Golden Calf!

This pacy, tightly written novel is like ‘Taxi Driver’ meets Charles Bukowski’s Factotum.
Uncut

An amusing, persuasive insight into obsession, stalking and the disintegration of sanity. Highly recommended to anyone with a bitter hatred of Tom Cruise and Hollywood stars in general.
Butterfly

A marvel of pace and comic timing….Much of Baum’s narrative bears a similarity to Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground.
Daily Telegraph

With a superb narrative control, Baum paints a portrait of male dysfunction set to explode.
The List

Ray is nearly as good a portrait of post-collegiate angst as has been painted so far.
New York Press

Explores the hazy junction where the teeth of the daily grind sink into the day-dreamt certainties of life’s true bell-head sounds.
Lee Ranaldo, member of Sonic Youth

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