Used book – BOOMING, Mika BIERMANN

Appearing in a sunrise fire on the blazing horizon, Lee Lightouch and Pato Conchi (the tall, thin one and the short, stout one), familiar yet unprecedented silhouettes from any self-respecting Western, placidly make their way to the village of Booming for sentimental reasons. "Nobody goes to Booming"; "There's nothing there"; "Have a candy, I don't think they have any there": they had been warned, however. Kid Padoon and his gang terrorized Booming, with the sheriff in their pocket, the brothel at their service, the saloon at their disposal, and the undertaker at their beck and call. But that's still nothing: something is happening in Booming, something astounding – petrifying, even – something deranged that explodes an adventure like a pile of marbles scattered by an exasperated child's flick of the wrist... While wrapped with a certain tenderness in the trappings of a funny novel, Booming is more than that. Mika Biermann's latest recurrence as a mad scientist of literature, it is a painting with colors worked with a spatula and deeply traversed by the shimmering waves of B-movies and American naturalistic painting, all condensed around the story of a friendship so strong that it defies bullets and the passage of time. For, let's dare to say it, Booming is a quantum Western. We thought we had seen it all: no.