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Mad to Be Saved : a Novel by Esser, Kevin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mad to Be Saved : a Novel about?
A midnight train tears through the Midwest carrying Jake Smith back to Sandburg, Illinois, and to his peculiar, yet beloved group of college friends who have remained in the town. But Jake is not merely returning to the scene of his college years, he is attempting to recapture the past itselfembodied in the glamorous Jesse Gray, the handsome, hard drinking, drug loving Neal Cassady-like townie who galvanized their generation, and whose existence was pivotal to Jakes discovery of love, of sexuality, and of himself. Can Jake succeed in his madly romantic quest? Can Jesse possibly live up to his remembered legend? Can memory and desire become one? Moody, retrospective, steeped in the everchanging colors of heavy rock music, hallucinogenics, and sex, Mad to Be Saved is a compellingly written contemporary novel of the Seventies college generation which resonates with the themes and ideas found in the classic authors of the Lost Generation of the Twenties and Thirties Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfefor whom the question of whether we can ever go home again was central. Mad to Be Saved is the second novel by Kevin Esser, whose best selling Streetbov Dreams was praised for it
Who reads Mad to Be Saved : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Esser, Kevin
- Publisher
- TVM --
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780914017059
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities