A disenfranchised white mans maniacal obsession with becoming a Master of the Universe in New York City in the 1960s. What one is not prepared for is the power and vast scope of this first novel: following Jeremiah Francis Scanlon (fat, balding, and 39) throughout New York City, Carol Hill has gotten down the madness of our times racism, obsessions with money, sex and power, loss of contact with the past and given us a vision of the future that is at once a desperate comedy and a harrowing rehearsal of the apocalypse.Robert Gross, Newsweek You should buy Carol Hills extraordinary book... simply as a novel of character, Jeremiah 8:20 works superbly... if you cant identify with Jeremiah Francis Scanlon you probably cant identify with yourself. This remarkable novel moves from the particular to the prophetic, from man to myth.John Leonard, New York Times
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"Carol Hill is an exciting novelist of unusual imaginative range. Subtle, forceful, pertinacious in following her vision." -- Alfred Kazin
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Carol Hill has written short stories, literary criticism and plays. She has acted in and directed plays in summer stock and Off-Broadway. She lives in New York City.
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Miss Phipps, Moby Dick, Fats Duquesne, Jeremiah Francis Scanlon, Hey Fran, Arthur Olmsby, Paul Revere, Miss Lois, New York, Miss Evans, Morty Pryor, Mary Worth, Good God, Edward Harris, Clayton Haskell, Uncle Henry, Grand Central, Look Fran, First Street, Black Power, Eddie Harris, Finally Francis, Hey Fats, Red Lion, City Hall Browse Sample Pages:
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