My Inflatable Friend: The Confessions of Rollo Hemphill

Book 1: Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill

by Gerald Everett Jones

Genres: Humor & Satire

Synopsis

Trying to make your girlfriend jealous with a life-sized rubber doll might be a bad idea.

A reformed hacker-turned-slacker, twentysomething Rollo Hemphill fantasizes about becoming a top-forty deejay but has more talent than ambition. He's settled for a menial job as a car jockey at The Wuthering Palms, a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills.

Proximity to all that glitter and glamour soon stirs his longings for Felicia Ferrulo, the Sicilian hottie who slavers the stars with mudpacks in the hotel beauty shop. When Felicia won't give him a nod, much less a tumble, Rollo devises a desperate plan. It involves dressing up a life-sized sex doll to look like one of the hotel's reclusive megastar residents and conspicuously driving the pseudo-babe around town in borrowed vehicles.

Inspiring jealousy is his simple-minded goal, but it quickly gets waaaaaaay out of hand. Rollo's clever scheme backfires with stunning success, causing him to fall upward with dizzying speed - as he rockets toward the stars but away from the girl of his dreams.

Rollo's fumbling attempts to undo this tangled web is, by turns, pathetic and hysterically funny - to everyone but him. My Inflatable Friend is a witty, cautionary tale about the perils of pretending to be someone you're not - and the hazards of stroking every male's most private and vulnerable part - his swelling ego!

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Release date: November 19, 2013

Publisher: LaPuerta Books and Media

Print pages: 185