A coming of age mock-u-memoir set in ’60s and ‘70’s New Zealand.
Growing Up Horny in New Zealand is a story of Nicholas Laurent who emigrates from bleak pre-Rolling Stones 60’s England to New Zealand. In pursuit of girls, the young man seeks intimacy while failing to understand the fairer sex. This mock-u-memoir chronicles his journey from tragedy to comedy, from bedroom to art gallery, as Nicholas seeks liberation from the relationships that haunt his failed quest for nirvana.
About the Author
We sailed to New Zealand. I went to Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University and worked for the National Art Gallery and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I took photographs and was a conceptual and performance artist.
I was put on a plane to New York, and told not to return.
My first adventure in the Americas was rescuing the wife of a Navy SEAL in Mexico. My original aim had been to study the paranormal, not the psychotic. Out of that came “Dolphin Kicks and Cactus Pricks”.
In New York I met a lawyer who was a cross between Marcel Proust and Freddie Mercury. I could not save him. His story became “The Palace in TriBeCa”.
I worked in the world of computer and telephone integration that rapidly evolved into the Internet.
I moved to Miami Beach and as a consultant solved other people’s problems.
With my own Private Investigation Agency, I worked as an investigator and bodyguard to the rich, the famous and the anonymous. I wrote “The Way of the Bodyguard”.