Octavius the 1st
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Product Details
Author:
Gaylord Brewer
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Publisher:
Red Hen Press (October 1, 2008)
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781597090827
ISBN-10:
1597090824
Dimensions:
5.5" x 6.6"
File:
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Folder:
PGW
List Price:
$17.95
Case Pack:
100
As low as:
$13.82
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Country of Origin:
United States
Weight:
6.4oz
Imprint:
Red Hen Press
Overview
Admirers of Gaylord Brewer’s dark and lyrical poetry will be delightfully stunned by this frantic detour into fiction, Octavius the 1st. Against a backdrop of dog walking and the bloated throat sac of the male siamang gibbon, through a gauntlet of good ole home cookin’ and the beatific lunch specials of the deli Cheeses Christ, to a soundtrack of soap operas and his own labored breathing, our protagonist, Octavius Trotter—lonely, hungry emperor of his mind—gambles the world’s meagre wages of love and longing. Jonathan Livingston Seagull meets The Bridges of Madison County. A dollop of John Kennedy Toole, a swizzle of Kingsley Amis, a sprinkle of Joyce. This alternately tender and brutally hilarious long novella emerges as something new, yet still contumaciously, caustically, inimitably Brewer. You are about to enter the “Otto Zone,” and life is about to change.
