Title: The Dolorous Adventure of Brother Banenose
Author: Matthew Catania
Publisher: Booktrope
Release Date: September 22nd, 2015
The
Dolorous Adventure of Brother Banenose is the
ideal novel for mature readers with juvenile senses of humor who
enjoy satire, sex, knife fights, theosophy, bestiaries, sorcery, and
some history thrown in for good measure. This tale focuses on the
comic misadventures of a 14th century Franciscan monk known as
Brother Banenose, who dreams of becoming a saint. Unfortunately, he
is afraid of being martyred. Even less fortunate, Brother Banenose
inadvertently inspires murderous rages in many people he meets in the
outside world, including a family of relentless barbarians. When he
learns that a precious relic has been stolen from his monastery,
Brother Banenose sets off to recover it. Along the way he strikes up
questionable friendships with some less than pious individuals
including a sultry witch, a fraudulent swineherd, a warrior maiden,
and a soothsayer who can only foresee doom. His quest leads him to
The Idyllic Land Of Bliss, which happens to be beset by both a
menagerie of fantastical monsters and the Black Death. The situation
grows even more perilous once the Holy Office of the Inquisition
arrives in town. If you were to put The Decameron, The
Name of the Rose, and The Adventures of Rocky &
Bullwinkle into a blender and hit frappe, you would wind up with
something resembling The Dolorous Adventure of Brother
Banenose. Original paintings by the author are included.
About The Author:
Matthew
Catania graduated summa
cum laude from
William Paterson University. He majored in Psychology and minored in
Honors Humanities, English, and Studio Art. He was President of
Zeitgeist,
the university’s literary arts magazine, for two years. Matthew
co-wrote, directed, and acted in a short film titled FILLER!,
which took the top prize in the Alternative Film category at the
William Paterson University Film Festival. Then he graduated from New
York Law School as an Associate of the Program of Law in Journalism.
He was a founding contributor to its award-winning legal journalism
blog, Legal
As She Is Spoke,
and co-authored the monograph Generation
Mixtape: A User’s Guide to Copyright Online. After
passing both states’ bar exams on the first try, he has been
admitted to practice law in both New Jersey and New York. Matthew
made ends meet by working as an assistant librarian in the David and
Lorraine Cheng Library and the Mendik Law Library. Topless
Robot and
io9
have
featured his articles. Additional ramblings may be found on his
personal blog, Matt
the Catania.
When not writing or painting, Matthew is employed as an unpaid feline
pleasure maintenance technician. He is currently accepting donations
to help pay off his law school loans and support his polydactyl
pussycat.
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