The Eternal Return

THE ETERNAL RETURN is the story of failed writer "Lucky" and his voyage back to childhood, to his unrealized dreams, and to the nightmares he has kept hidden from himself and others. After a jobless, loveless, and friendless decade in California, Lucky returns to New York in an attempt to finally finish the novel he has been pretending to work on for years. His plans are interrupted when he befriends an uncanny woman named Betty who progressively starts to resemble the heroine in his unfinished novel. As the mystery of Betty's existence begins to unravel, Lucky is forced to confront his past and decide what is real and what is illusion.


A sinister reimagining of the Pygmalion legend - alternately monstrous, cynical, and comedic - it is a book that follows W.B. Yeats' dictum that "sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind."

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The Eternal Return

THE ETERNAL RETURN is the story of failed writer "Lucky" and his voyage back to childhood, to his unrealized dreams, and to the nightmares he has kept hidden from himself and others. After a jobless, loveless, and friendless decade in California, Lucky returns to New York in an attempt to finally finish the novel he has been pretending to work on for years. His plans are interrupted when he befriends an uncanny woman named Betty who progressively starts to resemble the heroine in his unfinished novel. As the mystery of Betty's existence begins to unravel, Lucky is forced to confront his past and decide what is real and what is illusion.


A sinister reimagining of the Pygmalion legend - alternately monstrous, cynical, and comedic - it is a book that follows W.B. Yeats' dictum that "sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind."

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The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return

by John Kolchak
The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return

by John Kolchak

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Overview

THE ETERNAL RETURN is the story of failed writer "Lucky" and his voyage back to childhood, to his unrealized dreams, and to the nightmares he has kept hidden from himself and others. After a jobless, loveless, and friendless decade in California, Lucky returns to New York in an attempt to finally finish the novel he has been pretending to work on for years. His plans are interrupted when he befriends an uncanny woman named Betty who progressively starts to resemble the heroine in his unfinished novel. As the mystery of Betty's existence begins to unravel, Lucky is forced to confront his past and decide what is real and what is illusion.


A sinister reimagining of the Pygmalion legend - alternately monstrous, cynical, and comedic - it is a book that follows W.B. Yeats' dictum that "sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780984013081
Publisher: Ward Six Press
Publication date: 05/11/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 364
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

John Kolchak is a Russian-born American novelist and poet. He has worked as a translator, notably on the HBO historical drama miniseries "Chernobyl", guarded the world's greatest aesthetic treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art armed only with a whistle, wrote copy for various erotic publications, and currently struggles to maintain a mildly profligate lifestyle in Los Angeles. His hobbies include fiddling while Rome burns.
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