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The Prisoner’s Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess by Jerome Gold
ISBN 978-0930773373
In the indefinite future, an impoverished United States has sold its Southwestern and Pacific Coast states to Mexico. Seattle is governed by administrators and police sent from Mexico on hardship tour. And it is hardship. Human life has been brutalized. At night, gangs control the streets. Idealistic revolutionaries are not less brutal than the gangs. In The Inquisitor, Jerome Gold depicted a society that was disintegrating by increments. In The Prisoner’s Son, sequel to The Inquisitor–wait, let the author tell it . . .
From the author’s afterword: “The Prisoner’s Son . . . portrays a bottoming out of society, an America that is pathological at every level. The rules of society as we know them do not exist. Rather, they do exist, but without the veneer of rationalization that allows us to regard with detachment the breaking-up not just of society, but of civilization. The world of The Prisoner’s Son is one . . . of desperation . . . . It is the world of the prison imposed on the lives of all of us.”
Reviews
“. . . A taut, muscled novel which exposes, painfully and by degrees, the process of moral corruption–in bureaucratic organizations and in individuals whose lives are controlled by them . . . . This novel reveals many faces of alienation in contemporary America.” — Dr. Sue Ann Johnston, Western Washington University and Simon Fraser University (Adjunct)
“It is as if Kafka and Orwell have conspired to present us with a cautionary tale of an American future . . . with deceit behind every desk and death lurking near every file cabinet. At long last the great novel of bureaucracy has been written.”
—David Willson, author of REMF Diary and The REMF Returns.
“A horror novel in which the monsters are not just human beings but social forces, where blood is spilled . . . in freeze frame agonies of compassion.”
—J.G. Eccarus, The Stake
“Gold . . . has a grip on many of the predicaments, characters, and tendencies which contemporary fiction is concerned with.”
—The Small Press Book Review
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