Bluehart

The novel's subject, A. J. Bluehart, a lightning rod for bad luck on the day of his birth in 1920, lives with his mother in a Chicago whorehouse until his sixteenth birthday, when the women of the house decide on a special birthday gift only they can give. Bluehart moves on to a lifetime of peculiar adventures, some fortunate, some not.At the other end of his life Bluehart's daughter, Seven, sorts...