商品簡介
Where once the whim of the Hebrew God determined the fate of that tribe’s greatest heroes, in Waxed Exceeding Mighty it is by the adulteries of seemingly everyone around him that Adam Athelstan is expelled from his garden, enslaved in the desert, enthroned in the jungle.Waxed Exceeding Mighty tells the ludicrously epic story of Adam Athelstan, an angelic young man who grows and sells, and sings to, very rare flowers. After his best friend’s scorned fiance inadvertently drives a boat onto his harbourside glasshouse, Adam takes a job as a delivery driver for an obscene florist. The moment he finally realises that his employer’s primary business is in supplying arrangements to a brothel staffed by suicide-prone foreign sex-workers, Adam is mistaken for the recently-fugitive mistress of a politician and sent to the desert wilderness of an immigration detention centre. He inadvertently escapes and, terrified by the advances of the widow sheep-farmer who offers him refuge, elects to return to the detention centre as an employee. His naivete soon garners an outside job offer and he is flown to paradisiacal Vietnam, where he so excels at negotiating the return of gone-native tourists to their families that on an Apocalypse Now-style assignment his boss becomes wrathfully jealous and decides that he is going to kill him.
