In this wildly imaginative display of storytelling, an obsessive book editor abandons the pressures of his professional life and seeks contemporaryBohemia in the Uber-rational city of Frankfurt - accompanied by his enigmaticgirlfriend, their barkless basenji dog, and an unpublishable manuscript of questionable origin and multiple voices. What follows is a feisty head-on collision of fiction and reality.Anyone deep in a tortured relationship will love the bittersweet conflictbetween domesticity and the pursuit of an artful life.
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"...swoops the reader away on a remarkable journey of language and creation, story and adventure. " -- The Literary Review
"Written with the skill of a master craftsman and shimmering with linguistic delights, this novel is not to be missed!" -- Thomas E. Kennedy, author of Kerrigan's Copenhagen
The author's verve of language, his relish of engaging the maddening daily noise of the world, is in perfect pitch. -- FOREWORD MAGAZINE, October 2004
"Written with the skill of a master craftsman and shimmering with linguistic delights, this novel is not to be missed!" -- Thomas E. Kennedy, author of Kerrigan's Copenhagen
The author's verve of language, his relish of engaging the maddening daily noise of the world, is in perfect pitch. -- FOREWORD MAGAZINE, October 2004
From the Publisher
Library Journal wrote about David Applefield's fiction: "...contains passages of very fine writing, brilliant juxtapositions, and deeply moving meditations..."
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