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A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round.
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About the Author
Reyoung earned his B.A. in literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and then spent severalyears in the army trained as a Russian linguist.
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In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round.
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This experimental novel is broken up into three stories about living in a city's underworld. The first story focuses on a veteran named Harry who fills his life with booze and drugs so that his dream life and reality are woven into a world of paranoia. His life changes when he moves in with an artist named Cassa and rises in the corporate world, which proves to be as diabolical as his drug-induced dream world. The second story carries on this internal madness in the mind of a homeless man who creates an imaginary friend he calls Nakt to combat his desperate feelings of isolation and bare-bones survival. The third story is an absurd tale of a man named Erde who is forced to live underground as the world on the surface above him spins around in social chaos. Like the novels of Kenneth Patchen and the Russian Absurdists, this bizarre work rattles readers' sensibilities with a rich literary montage of the preposterous that carries with it a very strong social indictment of our times. Highly recommended for all collections.?David A. Berona, Univ. of New England, Biddleford, Me.
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