All Howard Plumber's friends from the bygone Denver punk poetry
scene have moved away to popular cities like New York or L.A.
during the months of his hospitalization, and all his more recent
allies from Vermont's experimental Power Mountain college and
graduate school live in locations equally distant. The internet
keeps Howard everywhere, a kind of selective omniscience enabling
his interactions on Facebook with an infamous imprisoned cult
leader named Hal Blare; an intimate of controversial late comedian
Roberta Bogchar's inner circle, who may or may not be a secret
agent in disguise; and countless other anti-famous notables.
Apparitions from pop culture (among them TV's Gabe Kotter and the
Carson McCullers character Frankie Addams) have begun to appear in
Howard's daily interaction, implying he's either mentally
unbalanced or extra perceptive about some unspecified shift society
is undergoing. Charmed by appearing women fictional and actual (or
neither) (or both) and tortured by a sense of incompleteness as
more and more fathers are taken from him, Howard follows peace
symbols in the sidewalk cracks and tries to win a living as a
creative artist of some kind, a dying art. The webzine's fan page
on the social network Facebook, which he uses as a bulletin board
for newsworthy items, becomes a virtual map of the apparent self
contradiction engendered by this transformation, where anything can
be proven and nothing is meant to be. Set triply in Howard's life
in Denver, his memories of grad school on the East Coast, and the
no-man's-everywhere inhabited by his cartoon doppelganger, Dim Jim
Driscoll, Sorehead is colored by Howard's commitment to
psychoemotional transfiguration.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
