
But everything changes in his small college town when a bright and shiny Blockbuster opens nearby: Clearly, this means war.

But Waring Wax is usually too drunk to worry about his declining business at Star Video, let alone his extinction in popular culture. A novel that manages to be both very funny and very sad, with an unrepentant belief in both movies and love served with a cleverness and irreverence that are difficult to resist” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).ĭescription: It’s 2007, and independent video stores are dying. the characters have enough heart and vivid imperfections to make their story irresistibly engaging. In this “funny, surprisingly tender debut novel. The Last Days of Video is a literary comedy about video stores and the strange, wonderful, half-insane people who once worked there.


Publisher: Soft Skull Press / Counterpoint Press
