2011

<p>A writer terrifies a small town. A Major League baseball player consults the Buddha. A woman disappears in front of the cameras. A cat whistles. The husband of a writer gets a life-altering makeover in his wife's comic strip. In a series of interwoven tales a man discovers he's the Baron of a vanished country only to get entangled in an assassination plot with international ramifications from Oslo to Paris from Santa Fe to Pakistan.</p><p> </p><p>And in what must be a first in world literature we are treated to a half-time show complete with live commentary and a very special guest star -Fyodor Dostoyevsky. </p><p> </p><p>Set in the fictional realm of Haven New Connecticut during the Great Recession of 2011 the thirty-six stories gathered here ensconces the reader in the middle of a world both recognizable and unsettlingly strange.  </p><p> </p><p>Written with caustic wit and a satirical bent these tales sometimes tickle sometimes outrage. With a cast of recurring characters the author explores the improbable and exposes the real world for what it perhaps truly is -a Joke. </p>