The Bargain Shopper

<p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Will President Trump be crowned as our first American monarch or is he doomed to burn in Hell? Only The Bargain Shopper knows.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Charles Rochambeau raves about his system for deep-discount shopping. Born into the 'wrong century' he despises technology computers and internet shopping. He was cursed with 'bad timing' as his father squandered the family fortune on Wall Street. As a scion of the legendary French general who helped Washington defeat the British in The Revolutionary War he has become a 'Certified Professional Shopper' in the service of an aristocratic divorcee Beatrice Wolcott whom like Charles has endured a life of bad luck and tragedies.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As Major Domo for her estate in Westchester County Charles witnesses her close relationship with Ryan Keneally the longtime family plumber whose son Trey reveals several shocking Wolcott family secrets. Charles suspects her friendship with Ryan seems much too close be platonic.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Yet Charles maintains his belief in 'The American Dream' and holds his ground as 'A Soldier of Truth' despite privation and adversity. He is dedicated to 'The Madame' and hopes to rectify the past so they can both recover their lost dreams and proud family legacies.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As Major Domo for her estate in Westchester County Charles witnesses her close relationship with Ryan Keneally the longtime family plumber whose son Trey reveals several shocking Wolcott family secrets. Charles suspects her friendship with Ryan seems much too close be platonic.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Yet Charles maintains his belief in 'The American Dream' and holds his ground as 'A Soldier of Truth' despite privation and adversity. He is dedicated to 'The Madame' and hopes to rectify the past so they can both recover their lost dreams and proud family legacies.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Great Pandemic arrives and shuts down most of the shopping malls. God is dead. Like Ignatius Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces Charles realizes he is trapped in a corrupt modern world over-run by duplicities politics and lies. Has The American Dream become Paradise Lost? Is Charles crazy or has Le Monde simply gone mad?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Like Dante's Inferno The Bargain Shopper is an unexpurgated account of a Pilgrim's journey to Hell and back.</span></p>