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The Last Days of Video

Published
Mar 2015
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Literary Literary
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304

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Video stores are dying. But most of you don't care. You've got your Netflix and your DVR, so why deal with VHS tapes or scratched DVDs? Why deal with the grumpy guy at the worn-down independent video store?

That grumpy guy is Waring Wax, and he's usually too drunk to worry about his declining business at Star Video, let alone his quickly evolving extinction in popular culture. But everything changes in his small college town when a bright and shiny Blockbuster Video opens nearby: Clearly, this means war. So, Waring enlists the help of his two reluctant employees, charismatic but conflicted Alaura and desperate virgin Jeff, to hatch a series of wild schemes to save their little store. Together, these three misfits try to save Star Video while confronting, among other things, Waring's self-destructive tendencies, a life training cult, corporate bicycle gangs, and a Hollywood director who constantly sees the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock.

The Last Days of Video is a hilarious elegy for a bygone era, a quirky and charming story of redemption for a group of loveable cinema freaks, and a love letter to the art of the movies.

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First Edition Mar 2015 Soft Skull Press ISBN13 9781619024854 ISBN10 1619024853
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Jan 2015 Soft Skull Press, Inc. ISBN13 9781619025189 ISBN10 1619025183
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Jan 2015 Soft Skull Press ISBN10 B00PSSGY04
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Apr 2015 Recorded Books ISBN10 B00WFCUO2U
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