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Homeless and delusional, Romulus Ledbetter lives in a cave in Inwood Park, until his discovery of a body and his obsessive quest for the truth force his reentry into "civilized" society as he attempts to solve the mystery. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
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George Dawes Green is a higly acclaimed novelist and poet. He currently divides his time between Georgia and New York.
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In this remarkable first novel, the caveman is Romulus Ledbetter, a Juilliard graduate, husband and father, former mental patient and current resident of a cave in Manhattan's Inwood Park. His valentine is the naked body of Scotty Gales, a homeless former photographer's model. The police say Gales simply froze to death, but Romulus knows that he was killed by agents of the evil Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant, who rules the world from his offices in the Chrysler Building. Sometimes aided--and sometimes humored--by everyone from his daughter Lulu (a police officer) to people he meets on the street, Romulus tracks Scotty's murderer, doggedly following his twisted vision of reality into a world of money and violence where things and people are never what they seem. Although Green's plotting is solid, the narrative draws its power from the superbly realized protagonist. Romulus is that rarity, a truly original character whose fits and rantings retain a dangerous edge and never become lovable tics. Green makes a wonderful debut with this gripping, well-written portrait of modern dislocation and homelessness--although Romulus would object to the latter term: he has a home; it just happens to be in a cave.
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- PublisherGrand Central Pub
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0446517224
- ISBN 13 9780446517225
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages323
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