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BLOCKHEAD is made up of stories, poems, essays, nudgies, and brickbats.

THREE WOMEN is about Eleanor, Helen, and Rana-- their ambitions, their indignities, and their fates.

As Harry Wilknott stumbles thru life doubting himself, he encounters a riddle in the form of the man in the red beret. Who is he and why has he latched onto Harry? The answers create more riddles until he discovers an even greater riddle. Adriano Meis As a result of two words uttered by a person unknown to him, Harry Wilknott's sense of himself is severely diminished during one despairing, comic, ironic situation after another. When things...

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Jay Axelrod kills man in moments of unpremeditated fear and passion. Filled with guilt, he is ready to confess but authorities do not believe him because there is no victim. When Axe declares that the victim has been stolen from him, he is ignored. Unable to relieve himself of his crime, he is driven by his guilt to go in search of the reason for the theft. This takes him on a strange and complex quest which becomes a mission to expose the truth.

By chance, Sieglinde and Evelyne have fallen deeply in love under extraordinary personal circumstances. As a devoted couple, they set out to live their love fully, it grows and prospers until....Brenner, a famous, popular performer and satirist who mocks everyone, is suddenly arrested and exiled permanently. He is being taken to live on a rock called Clingstone. The new leader of the City has decided to improve the moral tone that people like ...

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Johnston Smith, a New Yorker, is on the run from a scandal. He travels America to find a new direction. His goal is California where a job and a woman are beckoning. En route he encounters a variety of intriguing, troubled, and unusual people in Washington DC, Kentucky, Nebraska, and the far west. He is also attended by his dreams, fantasies as well as his persistent and unavoidable past.

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CUCKOO SONGS is composed of one story told twice. The first is experimental in which letters of words are switched to create new words, new sounds, many puns. The effect is meant to be comic. The story line is clear but is read and seen in a different way. The second version of CUCKOO SONGS is conventional and straight. It is meant to be sweet and funny and sometimes melodramatic. So what are the two CUCKOO SONGS about? The intimate lives of T...

Fast, funny, serious: That's life in the tumultuous 1960s, the setting for this novel about public education as seen through the eyes of Michal America, an idealistic teacher. His education in reality is rough and direct. This novel is comic, sad, funny, satirical, and serious.

Writing Myself to Death is a novel about the inscrutable lives, existential uncertainties, loves, hates, idiocies, and masquerades of Max, A., and Mr. Kiss. Here's another way of putting it: Max and Mr. Kiss are telling stories and tales about reconnaissance, mangoes, griefs, balloons, and A. Then again, they may be lying.

A Family Failure is a novel about Hank Drummer, who spends his short life trying to overcome the pressures and demands of a powerful, aggressive, and tyrannical father. Because he can't live up to expectations, Hank has turned to drinking for relief. As the novel opens, we find him in the Purple Mist as he reviews the efforts he has made throughout his life to find relief and freedom from a dominating father.

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