Best Selling Books by William Kotzwinkle

When Walter the Farting Dog is sold for a measly ten pounds, Billy and Betty are distraught. But Walter doesn''t realise he''s been caught up in a dreadful plan involving a fake clown, litres of his unique farts and a bank robbery. Only Walter could be relied on to fart his way out of danger as wll as solving a bank robbery and becoming the town''s hero - even if a bit of a stinky one!

Professor Kompressor visits Walter''s family, offering a remedy for the dog''s digestive disorder: special food that must be mixed in his Kompressatron. Unfortunately, the professor''s cure doesn''t work, so Father has to take matters into his own hands. Father''s combination of ingredients has a strange effect on the pooch—Walter blows up like a balloon and floats out the window! Just when it looks as though Walter''s paws may never touch earth again, he encounters a flock of butterflies in distress. Only he has the hot air that can save them from an icy death. Once he lets it rip, Walter''s flying days are over (or are they?). Plenty of laughs and cheers will arise from this story that takes walter to new heights.

Inspector Mantis and Dr. Hopper exercise their powers of deduction as they face more deadly foes than ever in these four tales of mystery and murder in Bugland.

Horse Badorties se lève et se couche dans sa turne du Lower East Side, navigue du Bronx à Chinatown, plane sur les hauteurs de Brooklyn. Son immense parapluie sur l''épaule, son merveilleux ventilateur à la main - le fan man rafraîchissant - pour rester cool en toutes circonstances, Horse arpente les rues mythiques du New York sixties, maestro en quête de jolies recrues pour la Chorale de l''Amour, sa principale lubie. Sous ses allures clochardesques de Yogi foutraque, Horse garde le coeur d''un jeune homme. Sa petite santé, ses grandes idées ont la démesure héroïque de l''Ignatius de Kennedy Toole. Son langage infusé aux drogues douces, la coolitude hilarante du Big Lehowski des frères Coen. Grand roman comique, Fan Man est comme une parenthèse enchantée, un message beat enregistré, une musique éternellement juvénile. On attendait depuis 1974 la traduction française de ce livre culte.

After being sold at the family''s yard sale, Walter is put to use blowing up balloons for a clown who is bent on robbing banks, but he escapes and becomes a hero.