Paradise by Paradise

<p>A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy RolandParadise as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony ofthose who knew him and those he knew.</p><p>In a nonlinear structure it unravels the story of Paradise from boygenius to watchmaker to wartime codebreaker to writer to teacher tohermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father the son the prodigy theepicist the enigmatist. The rumors the stories the accusations. Whereis he? Is he? Was he ever.?</p><p>His mind was a cryptish place an enigma a harmless cipher machineknocked senseless by the insane attempts of others to decode it asthough it held an inherent truth while driving him to another time toanytime.</p><p>Roland Paradise was ultimately a sad and lonely figure a possiblydelusional reclusive intellectual for whom life held little joy. For all hisbrilliance he never learned life's simplest lessons. A compulsive fabulistwhose life and disappearance was more fantastic than any of the storieshe invented or the lies he couldn't help telling.</p>