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Tom Bradley (Author)

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January 1, 2001
This two-part novel is set in Hiroshima, fifty years after the fact. The title character of Kara-Kun was in utero at the moment of the atom bomb's detonation, and is mentally deficient, like many such "bomb babies." His hobby is disrupting weddings at the cathedral. Not surprisingly, Kara-kun disappears soon after spoiling a Yakuza wedding...

In Flip-Kun, an American is being stalked through Hiroshima by "hit-missionaries" from a certain American pseudo-religion, whose patriarchs have declared a western-style fatwa on his head. "A wicked imagination...sheer invention..." (The Daily Yomiuri)


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Tom Bradley is a former lounge harpist. He holds a Ph.D. In English, and taught British and American literature to Chinese graduate students in the years before the Tiananmen Square massacre. His novel ACTING ALONE was published in 1995 by Browntrout of San Francisco. His work has been nominated for the Editor's Book Award, the New York University Bobst Award, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. His short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have won various Tokyo contests. One was translated into Japanese.

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Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so strange that it might well be genius.
-- Denis Dutton, editor of Arts & Letters Daily, author of The Art Instinct


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It's Sunday morning in the upstream suburbs of Hiroshima, exactly half a century, to the hour, after the bomb. Read the first page
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unidentified voice from the back, large transvestite, small transvestite, flame dancer, cathedral compound, poinsettia bush, official emissary, crypt chapel, death seat, organ bench, salt peanuts, native boy
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Father Gaudi, Peace Park, Elder Cicerone, Angler's Education Committee, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Mazda Cosmo, Boom Town, Hiroshima University, Salt Lake City, Ground Zero, Sam Edwine, Ministry of Tourism, Pacific Rim, Seto Inland Sea, The Home of the Brave, Bolivian Oblivion, Catalonian Jesuit, Keloid Krowd, King Kong, Saint Anthony, Blessed Virgin, General Authorities, Lady Liberty, Mount Topaz, Pope John Paul
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