The Record Haus Author:Alan Goldsher You're Perry Hardaway. You lead a band. You haven't been laid in forever. And you assistant manage a Chicago music emporium called The Record Haüs. Your boss is a freak. Your staff ignores you. One co-worker is a skatekid with a penchant for customer harassment. Another can't keep his hands away from your tushie. Your band has changed its name m... more »ore times than it's rehearsed. Your dream girl is a lesbian. Your love life is a farce. And that record store? It's going out of business. In seven days. A comic novel inhabiting the same universe as his acclaimed debut Jam, The Record Haüs is a melding of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and Kevin Smith's Clerks. It's a commentary on the destruction of small businesshow the end of one store can alter the lives of its customers, the neighborhood landscape, and the world of an everydude named Perry.« less