Full name: Zanesville: A Novel

Author: Kris Saknussemm Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812974164 5551480399 0812974166

WHO IS ELIJAH CLEARFATHER? Futuristic bioweapon or good old-fashioned messiah? Reincarnated ex-porn star or mutant information-age revolutionary? The man who awakens in New York City'€™s Central Park with no memory of his identity and the enigmatic message FATHER FORGIVE THEM F carved into the flesh of his back may be all of these things and more. Taken in (and then expelled) by a group of freedom fighters battling the soul-deadening Vitessa Cultporation, Clearfather is a stranger in an even stranger land. Following tantalizing clues that point to the gnomic Stinky Wiggler, and pursued by murderous Vitessa agents, Clearfather embarks on a surreal odyssey of self-discovery across an America that resembles a vast amusement park designed by some unholy trinity of Walt Disney, Hunter S. Thompson, and Hieronymus Bosch. Accompanying Clearfather is an unforgettable cast of characters'€“including Aretha Nightingale, an ex-football-playing drag queen; Dooley Duck and Ubba Dubba, hologram cartoon characters sprung outrageously to life; and the ethereally beautiful Kokomo, whose past is as much a mystery as Clearfather'€™s own. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, a savage, fiercely intelligent satire that is also a page-turning adventure and a transcendent love story, Zanesville marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice in fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition. Similar books: A Handbook of American Prayer by Lucius Shepard The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman Quin's Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe Light Boxes by Shane Jones Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis Jerusalem by Alan Moore The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson