Product Description

Eddie Delano is an underachieving, recalcitrant young man desperate to avoid life's absurdities and cursed to experience them in total. His sidesplitting quest begins in war-torn Vietnam but moves quickly to rural California and a circus-like college campus filled with oddball professors, rabid women's libbers and misguided leaders of the social revolution. His helpers and guides include the ultimate con man, a stoned-out hippie, and the wicked woman of his dark desires. Despite their shenanigans and the obstacles provided by the comically inept sheriff's detectives and the maniacal vegetarians of Baba Rama, Eddie finds his treasure. Or does he?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1107291 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 170 pages

The Leader, Jan. 23, 1999
[Orozco] just hit the jackpot...[with his] satire about the excesses of idealism on college campuses during the 1970s and the hypocrisy that was rampant.

The Best Reviews, November 21, 2002
Orozco's writing is witty and biting, the characters are memorable, and the political atmosphere of higher education...is very entertaining.

Midwest Book Review, November 14, 2002
Delano is a reader engaging, deliriously satirical, and enthusiastically recommended tale.

Customer Reviews

Deserves to be better known
This book is a tough one to score. On the scale of literary accomplishments it's probably a 2, but for pure, unadulterated fun, it's a 5. Depends how you get your kicks. Personally, I think life is just too short to plough through Salman Rushdie's banal forests of words; sometimes a simple idea is best. Delano is that - unpretentious, easy to read and clearly written with great enjoyment and tongue-in-cheek. It follows the fortunes of the main character - Delano - as he blags his way through University and then through the immediate years afterwards. It's a comedy with a sprinkling of a love story and a shot of a thriller at the end which culminates in a rather...bizarre finish, but funny nonetheless. Anyway, by the time you get there you'll have so warmed to this book that you'll find it as wonderful as I did. Just don't take this book or life too seriously and you'll laugh as much as I did.

Sarcastic yet poignant
Delano is sarcastic, funny, and sadly, right on the nose. Orozco's Heller-esque commentary on the absurdities that permeate schools everywhere is testament to a system that becomes alarmingly more inept each year. His tongue in cheek depiction of educators more concerned with political correctness and rampant cronyism than the business of learning is absolutely on target!
And for even more laughs on the crippled American school system, I suggest Lenny Castellaneta's "No One's Even Bleeding."

Thought Provoking Humour
This book reveals the gap between appearance and reality. Orozco's superb sense of irony sooths what would otherwise be a very painful look at the double standards of society.

The author needles every aspect of society that he challenges, and it is very funny. I highly recommend this book.