Looking for some contemporary fiction in the vein of Dickens, Nabokov, Irving and Toole? Then check this out. The man Jack (not a bad name as four letter words go) denizen of the Baghdad by the Bay, masseuse, healer, and bungling shaman wannabe is about to make a big decision. Not temperamentally accustomed to making decisions great or small he will be faced with a choice that will change him, those around him and perhaps the very fabric of existence forever. But before he comes to that great decision he must confront in ...
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Looking for some contemporary fiction in the vein of Dickens, Nabokov, Irving and Toole? Then check this out. The man Jack (not a bad name as four letter words go) denizen of the Baghdad by the Bay, masseuse, healer, and bungling shaman wannabe is about to make a big decision. Not temperamentally accustomed to making decisions great or small he will be faced with a choice that will change him, those around him and perhaps the very fabric of existence forever. But before he comes to that great decision he must confront in the best Dickensian tradition a merry band of eccentrics and woeful lunatics including:: * A brilliant but defeated English Literature graduate who spends her life as a zookeeper for thirty screaming monkeys five periods a day* The progeny of successful and indulgent parents who give their daughter everything except their time and attention preferring to send her to analysts for her emotional upbringing and who as an adult becomes the bad result of the best psychoanalysis money can buy* A merciless and homicidal thug who quotes John Stuart Mill word perfect* A small child crippled from birth who uses every bit of her puny willpower to contract herself into a hard, impenetrable and invisible ball while relentlessly tormented by her classmates and is against all odds and expectations transformed by the one person who is able to see beyond her disabilities* A vulgar and unhelpful city bus driver who is the reincarnation of the poet Virgil* The demented artist unknown to the world as she keeps her door barricaded against international art thieves while mountains of her finished canvases pile up around her inside her cramped efficiency apartment as her lunacy is furthered by breathing in the toxic fumes of paints and solvents, the low hanging smog of cigarette smoke and the heat of her fevered exertions* A young man so full of life and bright purpose who has discovered the secret to the meaning of life and is eagerly ready to share it with anyone who will listen except he's been dead for decades* Many moreWill Jack step forward and take decisive action when his moment arrives or will his future be a succession of days spent in maddening futility similar to he has today?Purchase Two Fisted Jack and find out what happens next.
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Add this copy of Two Fisted Jack to cart. $15.26, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2018 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
