Homesick
Dislocation and anonymity are at the center of this powerful story about a young man and his confrontations with the peculiar world of the Whispering Oaks Home for Elderly Living where senile patients desperate to retain what memories they have left roam the campus grounds unattended, or sit in their rooms for days without food or water while incorrigible employees terrorize and engage one another in meaningless sexual liaisons meant to sooth the sting of unsatisfying lives lived in alienation, all whilst a ten year-old escaped mental patient with an odd secret waits in a nearby forest for unsuspecting passersby she might befriend.
Along the way, the nameless protagonist is tossed into a series of humorous ordeals that pit him against his own boss, push him into the affections of a kindly nurse, pair him to a “blind” woman with a penchant for singing show-tunes to wildflowers, find him raging drunk at a house-party hosted by his coworkers, and, ultimately, forced to choose between a dehumanizing world he is ethically bound to and another which may not exist at all.
The first in a three part series, Homesick endeavors to address an issue that has nagged philosophers for years: if the world is a product of our interpretations, is it possible to touch the intrinsic truth of anything, or does existence by necessity leave us irreversibly alone?
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Along the way, the nameless protagonist is tossed into a series of humorous ordeals that pit him against his own boss, push him into the affections of a kindly nurse, pair him to a “blind” woman with a penchant for singing show-tunes to wildflowers, find him raging drunk at a house-party hosted by his coworkers, and, ultimately, forced to choose between a dehumanizing world he is ethically bound to and another which may not exist at all.
The first in a three part series, Homesick endeavors to address an issue that has nagged philosophers for years: if the world is a product of our interpretations, is it possible to touch the intrinsic truth of anything, or does existence by necessity leave us irreversibly alone?
Homesick
Dislocation and anonymity are at the center of this powerful story about a young man and his confrontations with the peculiar world of the Whispering Oaks Home for Elderly Living where senile patients desperate to retain what memories they have left roam the campus grounds unattended, or sit in their rooms for days without food or water while incorrigible employees terrorize and engage one another in meaningless sexual liaisons meant to sooth the sting of unsatisfying lives lived in alienation, all whilst a ten year-old escaped mental patient with an odd secret waits in a nearby forest for unsuspecting passersby she might befriend.
Along the way, the nameless protagonist is tossed into a series of humorous ordeals that pit him against his own boss, push him into the affections of a kindly nurse, pair him to a “blind” woman with a penchant for singing show-tunes to wildflowers, find him raging drunk at a house-party hosted by his coworkers, and, ultimately, forced to choose between a dehumanizing world he is ethically bound to and another which may not exist at all.
The first in a three part series, Homesick endeavors to address an issue that has nagged philosophers for years: if the world is a product of our interpretations, is it possible to touch the intrinsic truth of anything, or does existence by necessity leave us irreversibly alone?
Along the way, the nameless protagonist is tossed into a series of humorous ordeals that pit him against his own boss, push him into the affections of a kindly nurse, pair him to a “blind” woman with a penchant for singing show-tunes to wildflowers, find him raging drunk at a house-party hosted by his coworkers, and, ultimately, forced to choose between a dehumanizing world he is ethically bound to and another which may not exist at all.
The first in a three part series, Homesick endeavors to address an issue that has nagged philosophers for years: if the world is a product of our interpretations, is it possible to touch the intrinsic truth of anything, or does existence by necessity leave us irreversibly alone?
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| BN ID: | 2940014111331 |
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| Publisher: | inflammatory writ. |
| Publication date: | 01/29/2012 |
| Series: | Homesick , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 202 KB |
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