The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon by Joshua Smith (19 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

"Impressively and consistently written in high style, and with the ghosts of P. G. Wodehouse and J. D. Salinger hovering over his shoulder, in The Dream Journal of J. D. Solomon, Joshua Smith has fashioned a fanciful and free-wheeling farce for the twenty-first century." -- Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell "Joshua Smith's The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon is a vertiginous joy ride of a read -- surreal, hilarious, often mind-blowing, written in prose that provides a refreshing rush with every turn of the page." -Peter Duval, Author of Rear View and The Deposition The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon follows J.D. Solomon--a drifting insomniac, valetudinarian, and antiquarian--and his surreal hijinks around and through the bowels of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Himself a man out of time, J.D. encounters the wasteland of our contemporary era with decorous horror, whilst haunted by the memory of his lost childhood home. Whether aiding an old friend in abandoning his haunted digs, evading a vengeful military recruiter, or abetting himself in an homicidal historical society, J.D. contends with delusion and accounts along the way the jaunts and journeys of his madcap year until its divine end.

Genre: Literary Fiction