About this book
Blind Speed : a Novel by Joshua Barkan is a book available to read on EtoBox.
Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize 2009Not since Don DeLillo and George Saunders has a writer caught the humor and irreverent seriousness of our time like Barkan has through his protagonist Paul Berger, a flawed hero whose so-called fate drives him toward enlightenment just as surely as it propels him to destruction. Berger is stunned when he receives an ominous palm reading from a savvy guru at a health retreat in Iowa, of all places. And now it seems the prophecy is coming true. His fiance, who is about to leave him, is shot at a historic reenactment of the Revolutionary War in Concord. One of his brothers, an astronaut, dies on 9/11 in the Pentagon. And his more famous brother, a lawyer and politician, kidnaps him in a media campaign to win an election. But is Pauls life really controlled by fate? Or is the prophecy a lie he has latched onto ever since his band went under, leaving him almost famous yet unknowna teacher at a community college, struggling to keep his job? Blind Speed is a wildly entertaining exploration of intersecting lives in which what happens is never solely by chance or choice. Barkan has built a uniquely American satirical novel, a thoroughly twisted j
- Author
- Joshua Barkan
- Publisher
- Triquarterly Books; Northwestern University Press; Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810124936
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities