Gojiro

Mark Jacobson

GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 1997 - Fiction - 368 pages

Gojiro is a triumph of storytelling that firmly established itself as one of the preeminent -- and funniest -- novels of the post-nuclear era.

Its star, of course, is Gojiro -- the giant lizard -- made famous by a wildly successful cycle of B-movies and now come to exuberant literary life. Once a normal monitor lizard, he was transformed by an atomic test after World War II, gaining consciousness as well as five hundred feet and fifty tons. Meanwhile, in an Okinawa hospital, Komodo -- the world-famous Coma Boy -- reawakens for the first time since the Hiroshima blast nine years before. Together, the lizard and orphan venture forth to discover their identities in a world in which neither belongs. The story of their journey from Radioactive Island to the mansions of Hollywood and the deserts of New Mexico, Gojiro is geek love on a truly epic scale and a bible for the world that was born out of the Manhattan Project.

What people are saying

Review: Gojiro: A Novel

User Review  - Ron - Goodreads

This is a very odd little post apocalyptic tale about a boy and his mutated kimodo dragon with a quad cameral brain. Allegedly written in a repetitive Buddhist technique that is said to cause ...

Review: Gojiro: A Novel

User Review  - Patrick - Goodreads

I wanted to love this book. I really did. I tries. I love the concept, but I found the execution to be... well, 'tedious' is not too strong a word here. Tehre are certainly worse books, but I can't say I'd recommend this at all.

About the author

Jacobson has been a contributing editor to New York and Rolling Stone, a staff writer at The Village Voice, and a columnist for Esquire.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gojiro
• Author: Mark Jacobson
• Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 1997
• ISBN: 0802135390, 9780802135391
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General