D.L. Shiloh's new novel POOKOO satirizes celebrity culture and fame.
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS - A Google search of the obscure word “pookoo” brings up an interesting set of words. A pookoo is red African antelope. It's also the name of an Asian toilet manufacturer. And the latest is a trigger word for a new afterlife term. Huh?
“The main character, Katlin Hillmacher, wryly says it when he's imagining what he calls The Afterlife Camera,” author D.L. Shiloh said, referring to his just-published satire Pookoo, now available at Amazon.com ($10) or as a free PDF e-book download anywhere on the Internet. “He believes everyone's life is being filmed and when we die, we have a life review. We see “the movie of our life.” It's also what he said as a kid instead of peek-a-boo.”
Katlin is a former Olympian, a javelin thrower who won silver medal then gained rock star fame as a New Age cult figure. Together with the story's narrator, Katlin works as a movie theater usher. He was propelled into stardom when on a late-night TV cable interview show he declared that he'd had several Near Death Experiences and saw the Angel of Death. Shiloh writes at the end of the Chapter 27: “No one in history, I thought, needed more damage control at that time. I was wrong. It got worse.”
The book, a Vonnegut-inspired tract, is about Celebrity and fame. “Nowadays people can get famous for about anything,” Shiloh explained. “It's better when people do something [to gain fame].”
As the book takes root in society, you might hear the word “pookoo' more often. Another reason you might hear it more and more is that a feature-length screenplay is currently being written. The “movie of your life” just might be coming to a theater near you soon.
Pookoo: a satire of celebrity
$10 USD
190 pages
ISBN: 1438248164
EAN-13: 9781438248165
www.dlshiloh.com
www.pookoo.net
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