Auggie's Revenge

Down and out in America with absurdity all the way. In the city of brotherly unemployment Michael Vittinger shares an adjuncts office far removed from any real or imagined full-time tenure-track position. After more than a decade of teaching Michael still lives paycheck-to-supermarket in a small studio apartment. Trapped between insomnia and omniphobia Michael drifts into late-night supermarket friendship with Auggie an offensive pick-up artist and Jonny November a one-legged con man. Through their lessons on how to survive at the bottom rungs of Capitalism Michael realizes the promise of working longer and harder to earn a position with health benefits and a 401k security blanket is nothing but a Ponzi scheme - a shell-game run by the Capitalist-Education Complex to fill the prerequisite teaching positions with cheap disposable contract labor. Unable to face such a precarious future Michael joins Auggie and Jonny in a revenge-robbery plot in the hopes of justice for Auggie and a pile of cash for each of them. Aided by Michaels significantly younger girlfriend and former student they set out to murder and plunder Auggies abusive stepfather who stole Auggies inheritance and never served time for beating and molesting him. An eccentric guys gone bad to do good book Auggies Revenge is both a comic literary novel and a gritty crime thriller from the writer of the award-winning Fight for Your Long Day Americas major novel on the pay-per-course adjunct issue.