A shifting, poetic, vicious travel tale, twin narratives of travelling musicians, their stories overlapping but with only vaguely similar details, one revealing visions as lurid as they are unsavoury, the other mixing truth with deliberate lies. Both are funny in very different ways. There are cameos by a host of pop culture icons as you've never seen them before and never will again: iconoclasm never tasted so dirty. Behind the self-conscious charades, memorable fart lines (no kidding) and cynical outbursts there are passages that affect, confront and inspire. Not for everyone, so take my enthusiasm with a caveat, but I've had a blast with it on repeat reads. ( )