The Odd Plight of Adonis Licht

<p>The Odd Plight of Adonis Licht </p><p>Perception and reality collide in a dark witty fable combining a reversal of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis with overtones of Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There. Adonis Licht a nondescript museum art curator is a loner whose closest friend is a mute bag lady shrouded in black. After sleeping four straight days Adonis awakens to find himself handsome and athletic beyond his wildest dreams. </p><p>Adonis’s career takes off. Beautiful women come on to him. He becomes a media figure. Yet he finds it difficult to reconcile his striking looks and celebrity with his former self—the quiet awkward scholar whose painful past haunts him. </p><p>A sixteenth-century masterpiece and relationships with a coworker his ravishing manager and a journalist carry Adonis on an emotional roller coaster. Despite a catastrophe at the museum his star continues to rise. When tragedy strikes Adonis discovers that fantasy has a dark side.</p>