Bill Coleman

Trailer Park Hippies II Bill Coleman

Trailer Park Hippies II: Hippies on the Hump is the long-awaited sequel to Bill Coleman's debut novel, Trailer Park Hippies, published by Far Out Books in 1999. In the second installment of this psychedelic series of the 60s, our hero and the cast of characters from Adolf's East Morton Trailer Park find themselves transplanted to "The Hump" (aka Klan Headquarters) in East Morton, Ohio, where they re-form their old high-school band. They then break the unwritten rules of residential etiquette in their new neighborhood by taking in a housemate of minority status and ignoring their neighbors' warnings and threats of reprisal until they can be ignored no longer. In their sordid new hippie household, which serves as Party Central to freaks from two states, our protagonist re-connects with Stoni, a hip big-city chick with whom he dallied behind the back of his devoted high-school girlfriend, Tonya Treadway, a couple of years earlier. Stoni appears on the Hump to start chapter two of their relationship, but their attempts at intimacy are disheartening enough to plant doubts in our hero's mind about his sexuality. Gay strip club owner and hip northern Kentucky gangster Robby "Butch" Biondo senses these doubts and tries to convert the "Mick Jagger of East Morton, Ohio" to the other team by hiring the rejuvenated New Love Morticians as the house band at his piano-bar-turned-freaky-music-club, Butch's Playhouse. But Cincinnati's top exotic dancer (by night) and Frederick's of Hollywood manager (by day), the glamorous blond bombshell known as Eden, takes decisive steps (in her towering skyscraper stilettos!) to keep our vulnerable hero out of Robby Butch's predatory clutches. She lures him instead into the sensuously seedy world of Newport, Kentucky (aka "Sin City"), and arranges for The New Love Morticians to play at the Seventh Heaven Swingers' Club, where the band of wannabe East Morton hippies finally find their musical niche. Six years his senior, smart and sexy Eden minds and mentors her new young lover until he finds himself (in more ways than one) in her king-size, leopard-sheeted waterbed, with all his fantasies rolled into one incredible living centerfold! Love and laughter, sin and seduction, drugs and danger, dominance and submission--as well as plenty of good, old-fashioned sex and drugs and rock and roll--await you on the pages of Trailer Park Hippies II: Hippies on the Hump!