Horace Bixby

Presidential Candidates—watch out! Don’t be surprised if you soon start to see "Horace Bixby for President" signs popping up in unexpected places—on network news shows, accompanying front-running candidates on the campaign trail, and in malls and bookstores near you.
Luckily, as one of the early reviewers of R.F. Seabury’s new novel, when your friends and readers ask you, "Who is this Horace Bixby?" you’ll be able to answer them with an insider’s savvy—if you can stop laughing long enough.
Relentlessly politically incorrect, Horace Bixby manages to skewer Americans of all stripes—old and young, fat and thin, gay and straight, New Age and conservative—but all are so affectionately portrayed that we don’t mind. The bawdy, farcical plot revolves around Horace’s crusade for justice and eventual campaign for president, intertwined with the gossipy doings at his twin sister Hortense’s Florida trailer park. The eponymous Horace is a pompous, offensive boor who wears loud ties and has hair sprouting from his ears—and who we come to love because he unerringly points out that the emperor has no clothes. The book closes with a transcendent, almost prayerful sequence of surprising sweetness that reveals the inner longings of each of the unlikely characters. Thus, Horace Bixby joins the ranks of other classic American picaresque novels—think Tom Robbins meets Kurt Vonnegut, with the blessing of Samuel Clemens.