A black comedy in which a jealous husband sinks ever deeper into madness while agonozing over his numerous failures.
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Hector Favallone is retiring from a small New England college. But Hector is not concerned with planning his future. Instead, he is obsessed with his much younger wife, whom he suspects of adultery. Pendant and buffoon, Hector searches for evidence of her unfaithfulness, only to find, tucked among her undergarments, torturously detailed and hilarious evidence of many sexual escapades. So begins Hector's wild, self-deluded campaign to right the many wrongs in his life, a quixotic journey that becomes increasingly hallucinatory. Linguist Hector's work, now missing, centered on proving the close relationship between the Basque and Georgian languages. Hector believes it stolen by the KGB or ETA; his chairman suspects the research was a fantasy. As Hector pursues his wife and her imagined lover, his mind also regresses to the period when he was one of Mussolini's Black Shirts, aiding Franco in the Battle of Guadalajara. Throughout, Pearlman creates wonderful juxtapositions: Hector's silly, erudite language and the speech of his teenage children, his cosmopolitan memories laid over a normal American town. A richly comic gem. Brian Kenney
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My academic books include the well-known writing textbook GUIDE TO RAPID REVISION (now in its 8th edition) and a book of literary criticism, THE BARB OF TIME: ON THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND (Oxford U. P.).
Beginning with the 1980s, however, my writing interests switched entirely to fiction.
As of January, 2012,I have published about sixty short stories and novellas, most of which have been collected in three volumes: THE FINAL DREAM & OTHER FICTIONS (Permeable, 1995); THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD & OTHER MISFITS (Aardwolf, 2001); and A GIANT IN THE HOUSE & OTHER EXCESSES (Merry Blacksmith, 2011). My two novels to date are BLACK FLAMES (White Pine Press, 1997); and MEMINI (Prime/Wildside, 2003). Details at my homepage: ddpearlman.com.
Beginning with the 1980s, however, my writing interests switched entirely to fiction.
As of January, 2012,I have published about sixty short stories and novellas, most of which have been collected in three volumes: THE FINAL DREAM & OTHER FICTIONS (Permeable, 1995); THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD & OTHER MISFITS (Aardwolf, 2001); and A GIANT IN THE HOUSE & OTHER EXCESSES (Merry Blacksmith, 2011). My two novels to date are BLACK FLAMES (White Pine Press, 1997); and MEMINI (Prime/Wildside, 2003). Details at my homepage: ddpearlman.com.
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