Product Description

Meet Ray Pulaski. With no real personality of his own, Pulaski reinvents himself as Ray Style, rock star and neighborhood gigolo...only the neighborhood isn't buying his story. Soon Ray sets off across the country in search of the reasons for his derangement, but neither Ray Style nor another new personality, consumate gentleman Ray Proper, are about to give up the fight for Ray's soul. Can Ray put his jigsaw puzzle of a life together?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1828190 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Review
Fizz is a fun, fun read folks...Toth does some wonderful things through the eyes and life of a kid dropped shortly after birth in a horrible accident (or was it?). Ray Pulaski s world is ever changing (as is his name) as he struggles to find the answers to who he is and why...Ray s dilemma is complicated not only by his 'slowness' (and a possible mother from hell), but also by all the people around him as their cruelty (even when trying to be kind) sends Ray from one search to another. Toth shows how cruel we all can be without even trying...and how life s lessons are always learned the hard way. Great stuff, really. Bravo! Fizz sizzles... a compelling read that doesn t let anyone off the hook. --Charlie Stella

Paul A. Toth is a unique, startling new voice in American literature. Part Bukowski, part Hemingway, part Freud, and, well, part Toth, every sentence in Fizz is packed with a fantastic punch. Readers will be engaged with Ray Pulaski. Certainly, Paul A. Toth is a talent to watch. --Felicia C. Sullivan, author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life

Fizz is a fun, fun read folks...Toth does ome wonderful things through the eyes and life of a kid dropped shortly after birth in a horrible accident (or was it?). Ray Pulaski s world is ever changing (as is his name) as he struggles to find the answers to who he is and why...Ray s dilemma is complicated not only by his 'slowness' (and a possible mother from hell), but also by all the people around him as their cruelty (even when trying to be kind) sends Ray from one search to another. Toth shows how cruel we all can be without even trying...and how life s lessons are always learned the hard way. Great stuff, really. Bravo! Fizz sizzles...a compelling read that doesn t let anyone off the hook. --Charlie Stella, author of Charlie Opera, Shakedown, Cheapskates and many more.

Paul A. Toth's first novel, can be summed up in two words: 'read it.' A combination of Fight Club and The Adventures of Don Quixote, Toth's venture into the cold (and funny) streets of one man's hell is also a savage satire of society's hell-bent fascination with fame and the destruction of those we put on a pedestal. Sharp, Mr. Toth! Very sharp! --Felicia C. Sullivan

Toth opens Fizz with a bang and never looks back. His writing is fierce and his characterizations fiercer, erasing the line between delusion and reality while never losing track of the story's heart. --Whitney Pastorek

Todd Dills, Editor, The 2nd Hand
Marked by a goofball, satirical surrealism, Toth's tight prose never ceases to delight cruisers of the lit underground.

Greg F. Gifune, author of Night Work and Saying Uncle
In a sea of cookie cutter fiction where empty hype often outweighs talent, Paul A. Toth is the real deal.

Customer Reviews

Toth is onto something BIG!
So many times writers try their best to produce something original, something profoundly great, something honest, that they fumble everything and produce a book that makes no judgments. Toth delivers everything you'd expect from a talented writer. FIZZ is genuine and refreshing, just as any reader would demand of a novel. Ray Pulaski, the protagonist and essentially the antagonist, finds himself in situations that will make you both tear and chuckle madness. If more writers mimicked Toth, readers would have mental climaxes every time they sat down to read.

Outstanding book from a talented writer
Fizz is the best new book I've read in a long time. I agree with others who say they couldn't put it down. I read it every spare minute I had and when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. With his captivating writing style and incredible imagination Paul Toth has created a wonderfully quirky character in Ray Pulaski who is both lovable and at the same time deeply disturbing. I cared about Ray in a way I don't usually care about fictional characters. I cheered Ray on as I followed him through his sometimes funny, often tragic journey.

This book will make you a huge fan of the very talented Paul A. Toth.

"Fizz" is cool!
Paul Toth's "Fizz" is a fast-paced, tightly-plotted tale from the perspectine of Ray Pulaski, the epitome of urban displacement. Toth's nimble prose walks a fine line between the comic and tragic as Ray wavers between reality and fantasy, and the situations in which Ray finds himself are inventive and compelling. The scene in which Ray inadvertently becomes the local gigolo is hilarious!

"Fizz" will grab hold of you - you will want to read this book in one sitting.