Who Killed Jerusalem?
George Albert Brown
apl 2023 · Galbraith Literary Publishers Incorporated · Lu par Patrick Lawlor
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A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?
With a tour-de-force narration by the multi-award-winning Patrick Lawlor, who uses his uncompromising talent to bring every character to life with an astonishing vocal range.
“A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING
SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW
“A ZANY, INVENTIVE, AND MULTILAYERED FEVER
DREAM OF MURDER AND MAYHEM”—KIRKUS REVIEWS
A seamless melding of (i) the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose,
(ii) the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces,
and (iii) the fabulous world of William Blake.
In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco’s golden-boy poet laureate (based on Blake), is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight.
Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet’s death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem’s coterie (updated amalgams of characters from Blake’s work).
Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective’s clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet’s mind.
Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love-making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much, much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem’s (Blake’s) seductive, all-encompassing metaphysics.
But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun.
Before Ded’s death-dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case, and perhaps, in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?
With a tour-de-force narration by the multi-award-winning Patrick Lawlor, who uses his uncompromising talent to bring every character to life with an astonishing vocal range.
“A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING
SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW
“A ZANY, INVENTIVE, AND MULTILAYERED FEVER
DREAM OF MURDER AND MAYHEM”—KIRKUS REVIEWS
A seamless melding of (i) the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose,
(ii) the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces,
and (iii) the fabulous world of William Blake.
In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco’s golden-boy poet laureate (based on Blake), is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight.
Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet’s death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem’s coterie (updated amalgams of characters from Blake’s work).
Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective’s clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet’s mind.
Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love-making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much, much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem’s (Blake’s) seductive, all-encompassing metaphysics.
But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun.
Before Ded’s death-dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case, and perhaps, in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?
À propos de l'auteur
George Albert Brown, a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law, started as a hippie in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury and retired at age 40 after having co-founded a successful international finance company. Following stints thereafter as a humorous author (The Airline Passenger's Guerrilla Handbook) and an angel investor in over a score of high-tech university spinouts, he built a catamaran in Chile and for more than a decade, cruised it across the globe with his significant other. Today, as a father of three grown children, a grandfather of four not-yet-grown children, and an involuntary lover of stray cats, he continues his peri- patetic lifestyle by other means.Who Killed Jerusalem? is the book that George, a life-long devotee of William Blake, had always wanted to write.
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