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The Drums of Africa
Author: Schell, Tim
Pub Date: Aug 2007; 247 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59539-022-6
Price: $15.95
Description:
Novel.
Tim Schell's first novel is a gripping and timely tale
of two young Americans, Val and Glen, arriving in Africa
as Peace Corps volunteers in the 1970's, filled with
altruism, naïveté and thirst for adventure. As the line
between adventure and catastrophe narrows, Schell
masterfully creates a mosaic of cultural perspectives
and ethical tensions between faith and its lack,
politics and revolutionary coups, lust and love set
against an exotic backdrop rife with sorcerers, priests,
corrupt politicians, poachers, coffee farmers, Peace
Corps workers and prostitutes, a place leading each
character inward to unexpected self-revelation and
self-sacrifice. —Melissa
Pritchard |
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Flicker in the Porthole Glass
Author: Desautels, Edward
Pub Date: May 2002; 277 pages
ISBN: 0-9718059-0-3
Price: $17.95
Description:
Novel.
Jack Ruineux, projectionist at a run-down movie theater
in Philadelphia, struggles to reconcile Hollywood
imagery with his dreary quotidian existence. Alienated
from his family, haunted by dark memories of his youth,
Ruineux casts himself into an inner world where history,
myth, memory, and nostalgia blend in whims of
self-reinvention. His concerned lover attempts an
emphatic understanding, and seeks to "fill in the gaps"
of his broken narrative in order to make whole a Ruineux
with whom she can enjoy a profound connection.
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A Larger Sense of Harvey
Author: Anastasopoulos, Dimitri
Pub Date: 2001; 413 pages
ISBN: 0-9666028-8-9
Price: $18.00
Description:
Novel. A tale about language, love, and identity, A
Larger Sense of Harvey takes a bold stand between the
traditions of American metafiction and the European
epic. Set in the Greek islands, Helsinki, Minsk, and
even a research facility in Lapland, the novel
chronicles the life of the self-styled “typer,”
divorcee, and impenitent (if impotent) observer Harvey
Rocketsch. Beginning with his postwar boyhood outside
Minsk, to his tenure documenting covert language
research at a secret lab in the Arctic, the novel
reveals the mystery behind Harvey’s death in a freak
ballooning accident over the Dvina River.
Though the novel is presented as a compilation of
Harvey’s private journals, the question of
translation—particularly botched translation—looms large
as it becomes clear that Harvey’s personal accounts have
been skewed by his friend, mentor, and colleague Martin
Ambrose. Eventually Ambrose’s translations are pit
against the authentic story which is revealed despite
his attempts to suppress it. The result is a narrative
laced with both hilarious and gently philosophical
moments as Anastasopoulos goes on to consider the nature
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Counting Zero
Author: Kress, Dave
Pub Date: 1999; 370 pages
ISBN: 0-9666028-2-X
Price: $20.00
Description:
Fiction. Kress's
first novel reminds us how intelligent a form the novel
can be, in the right hands. COUNTING ZERO is a keenly
apprehended story, written with articulate zest and a
voracious appetite for the things of everyday life seen
in consummate detail. "This novel ... is a mature,
elegant piece of work. Yes, Virginia, there are still
some stylists on the Rialto"--Paul West.
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