Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt

Plot synopsis

Somewhere in Kentucky, perhaps Indiana, we learn via third person narration about the life of John Kaltenbrunner.

Essentially we follow the life of John and his unimaginably bad luck, until he meets a group that is even worse off - garbage men whom the town considers the lowest of the low - and so John decides to do something about it and starts up a trash-collection strike with horrific consequences.

Publication

The novel was first published in a French translation by Gallimard in 1998 before being picked by Grove Press and Picador who published the original English text.