Publisher's Synopsis
Butts and Pizza, the debut novel by Frank Ottens, is a passionate contemporary epic about love, friendship, sexuality, music, women, football, cowardice, courage, panic, beauty, staying in the cell, broken-hearted Moroccans, bad and good food, adrenaline, lethargy, massage, billiards, winning, teaching, fear of flying, losses, cannabis and other dope s***, a trip to Milan, mobile telephones, Aldi, a garden party, a juvenile detention center, the firm BeterInBed and the barmaid Madelon, a lawsuit, Gianluigi Buffon, and all sorts of other strange keepers. Butts and Pizza is light and harsh, lyrical and raw. It swings and it pinches - it is the sheer shit under the prose (c) pills. Frank Ottens proves (1970) that anger can work and inspire people with this gory debut novel Butts and Pizza as a teacher in a juvenile detention. He strikes back with his razor-sharp, gossamer weapon: the pen. This is a book about love, friendship, sexuality, music, women and football. Residing in the former island of Wieringen (NH), Ottens is a journalist working for Region Golf, Bergen's Nieuwsblad and Contact (newspaper for Egmonds).
