John Limon: Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century [2022] paperback Condition:New His simple life is shattered

His simple life is shattered

You are surrounded by stickiness

and depending on the hour the waves

But then one summer the enigmatic and shape-shifting Eva Spiller arrives in search of the remains of her parents and together they embark on a strange and disconcerting journey of discovery

John Limon: Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century [2022] paperback Condition:New His simple life is shatteredEscape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st century American fiction: the desire to escape from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death at a time of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and messianic ideals have lost