Norman D Beech enters the world on D-Day just as the mighty Allied
armada is landing on the shore an ocean away. He is marked at birth
as different from others, a sign of divinely infused belief
conflicted by a compelling bias toward self-indulgence. George
Beech, moderate in all things except his unlimited love for his
firstborn, is later rewarded with insolence, rebellion, and
estrangement. Norman, a lowly foot soldier in the war between good
and evil, wanders into the dangerous no-man's-land of mediocrity.
The prodigal son's comic misadventures turn deadly as the action
shifts from Washington, DC, to New England. His war is waged on a
battlefield where the markers between the real and the imaginary
are constantly shifting as he seeks escape in an alcoholic fog. To
know Norman is to love him; to love him is to put your sanity, if
not your life, in peril. He leaves bottles, beauties, and bodies in
his wake as he wages his relentless assault on the world. Penitent,
Norman seeks forgiveness from his earthly father, only to find him
hopelessly lost in the miasma of Alzheimer's. He fights on,
searching for love, knowledge, and God, while risking everything to
the demons of selfishness, drunkenness, and despair. Teetering on
the brink of extinction, he is driven by unseen forces to a final
showdown at the Last Chance Saloon.
General
| Imprint: |
Authorhouse
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2007 |
| First published: |
April 2007 |
| Authors: |
Nicholas D. Brown
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
316 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4343-0269-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4343-0269-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781434302694 |
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