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Lives of the Chansonniers
The new novel/memoir/musing/rant/romp
by Charles Blackwell
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author of Due to an Earlier Incident
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is pleased to announce the publication of
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A funny, sad, sometimes surrealistic mishmash of fiction and memoir, consisting of A prologue:
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“THE BOY WHO WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL,” in which a middle-aged man reminisces about his high school days, with special emphasis on a mistake he made his senior year at the homecoming dance that would have lasting consequences for his life.
AND three INTERWOVEN quest narratives / philosophical tales / shaggy dog stories:
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“PHILIPPA OF ROEBUCK LAWN,” in which a sensitive tween comes to believe her mother has been kidnapped and replaced by a nearly-exact duplicate and leads her friends on a quest to find her real mother; struggles to advance in the male-dominated Safety Patrol at her school; and goes on a wacky road trip with her family to the Florida Panhandle that features a stop at a disturbing roadside attraction...and lots of other deep-south weirdness.
“LA BOÎTE DE THÉ 2008,” in which a middle-aged man moves to New York to start his life over as a public school teacher, but has a nervous breakdown instead. He quits his job and hangs out at a coffee shop in Brooklyn writing a memoir about his experiences. He also becomes a hypochondriac.
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“LEAVING THE CHAMARTÍN STATION,” in which a young man who can’t get his life started goes on a “Grand Tour” of Europe to have some "experiences” and meets many beautiful and fascinating women of many nations and strikes out with every single one of them. The whole time he’s in Europe, though, he can’t stop thinking about all the troubles back home he is trying to escape.