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Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?

by Braiian Ruuska

105 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1761; ISBN 1-4120-3953-3; US$14.50, C$16.00, EUR12.00, £8.50

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? is a collection of stories by Braiian Ruuska, "a well-fed, easygoing fellow, with a stout neck, broad pelvis, and bulging eyes."

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About the Book

Former hillbilly jug band legend "The Total Package" Braiian Ruuska has released his first collection of short stories, entitled Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? Here's what people are saying:

"It's not a trajectory of separation, it's an orbit." -Dewitt Henry

"Ruuska? I hired him to paint my fence in '96, but he ran away before he finished. made off with my best paintbrush and some cornbread that was a cooling on the windowsill. Paint my fence, you carpetbagger!" -Sven Loob

"You can't buy chewing gum anywhere is Singapore, but you can buy peppermint candy because you eat it till it's gone. Ah, Singapore." -Naoko Yamano

"Ruuska writes prose that way it should be written, that is, with one elbow in a bowl of warm broth and the other resting triumphantly upon the smoldering carcass of pragmatism." -John Updike

"When you really need them the most, that's when rock 'n' roll dreams come true." -Meatloaf

"If 100 bellybuttons were lined up against a wall, I could definitely pick out which one is mine." -Madonna

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About the Author

Former hillbilly jug band legend Braiian Ruuska was born in the freight elevator of a wax museum. He has been described by marshmallow salesman Olaf Heep, the only person who's gotten a good look at him recently, as "a sulky, unbalanced, clumsy and fierce young man with the eyes of a child and the shoulders of a furniture mover."

It was long suspected that during the 1980s Ruuska donned a mask and became one of the most famous amateur horseback riders of the era, riding under the name Grimace Fonzarelli, but this myth was debunked in 1998 when neighbors discovered an unconscious Fonzarelli on Ruuska's front porch, while inside Ruuska shrieked: "I'm going to the movies and I'm going to meet some girls, the kind of girls who like new salad recipes!" Who knows if he ever actually got to the movies...

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