Name: Insect Dreams

Author: Marc Estrin
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9780399148361
9781932961096
0399148361
1932961097
The metamorphosis of Kafka'€™s Gregor Samsa from fabric salesman to cockroach was surely one of the momentous transformations of the modern world. Now, in Marc Estrin'€™s astounding debut, Gregor undergoes yet another metamorphosis'€”one that propels him across the rocky and often ridiculous landscape of the early twentieth century. In these continuously surprising pages, Estrin'€™s Gregor'€”secretly sold to a Viennese sideshow by the Samsas'€™ chambermaid'€”comes to sharpen his mind against those of Wittgenstein, Spengler and Einstein; dance to the crazy rhythm of American Prohibition; appear as a surprise witness at the Scopes trial; become intimately involved in Alice Paul'€™s feminist movement (and with Alice Paul); encounter the KKK; and confer with FDR, and Robert Oppenheimer'€”and emerge from it all as the very essence of modern conscience.
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