Pete the Photographer & Other Impressions

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pete the Photographer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Marvin Cohen pays tribute to Henri Michaux's hallucinatory travelogues. This weird and disturbing novella part picaresque part surreal follows the path of the half-blind Pete from birth to exile and further exile battling sentient towers and the sea itself armed only with his trusty camera.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The other pieces in this collection are similarly idiosyncratic and thought-provoking: from the frenzy of a perpetual-motion basketball player to the celebrity of a living statue; from the speculations of a would-be intergalactic taxi driver to the ambitions of a mobster in heaven. And there is even a dialogue that tries to discourse on everything!</span></p><p></p>