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The Secret Book of Designs

De: Catamount Mayhugh
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 Overview Déjà Vu. The tipping sensation perched precariously on the cusp of the future. The blurred boundary between what we know for certain and what we are convinced is true. In a near future where this fleeting djinn has been bottled as a dangerous recreational drug, its addicts must cope with a profoundly damaged sense of time, a ravenous need to find meaning and connection, and cravings for the ultimate comfort that is timelessness. B-J is both artist and addict, a halfhearted participant in a new form of inpatient rehab. Surrounded by the Sunhouse Branch --a bevy of fellow resident lost souls-- he struggles to kick his urges and restore order to a life where the once-familiar future seems cloaked in shadows. Editorial Reviews From Kirkus Reviews: A novel about addicts recovering from a peculiar drug from debut author Mayhugh. Blaise Joule, B-J to most, is a college dropout–turned–stained glass artist with an appreciation for myths and history, a penchant for the Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, and a problem using correct verb tenses. Finding himself in the Red Lion House due to an addiction to the drug “Vu,” B-J is surrounded by fellow patients with equally diverse interests: Tom, a photographer steeped in Buddhism who greets people with a gentle “Namaste,” and the enthusiastic William Kelmscott, a publisher with an extensive knowledge of anthropology and quotations, both biblical and otherwise. The reader follows along as these and other patients argue, discuss philosophy, write poetry and learn to trust and, in some cases, love one another. B-J falls for the slender Cecilia, but the joining of two recovering addicts is a fragile affair. Stuffed with dialogue and references ranging from Nathanial Hawthorne to Monty Python to Calvin Coolidge and Tarkovsky, the book isn’t meant for the impatient. Discussions tend to be lengthy, and details of life in the Red Lion House (“I’m not sure Greg and Louis’ spaghetti dinner captured the essence of a special event”) can seem extraneous. Favoring a meditative quality, the book is geared more as a Dinner with Andre meets The Magic Mountain. A trust-fall exercise may not impress the reader as much as it does B-J; however, the resulting musings allow for any number of tangential thoughts and altered relationships. The prose can be a little overwrought (“Her voice took on the slightly malicious timbre of her most coquettish tones”), but the story whips through so many different concepts, the interested reader is bound to learn something in the process. Explores many wide-ranging ideas at its own unapologetic pace. The Author CATAMOUNT MAYHUGH holds a Masters in Physics and is a Juris Doctor. He has worked in the world of rare books, has operated as an independent curator, and is an artist, poet, farmer, scientist, educator, and attorney. Written originally over three months in 1999, the book is an experimental stream-of-consciousness prose poem meditating on the “death” of music in the final stages of ecstatic lovesickness as explored by the troubadours and other mystical traditions. The first book in an anticipated series of five books (which will not otherwise share either characters or plot), Mr. Mayhugh is attempting to explore and memorialize a philosophy which is otherwise impossible to fully systematize. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blurb by Cody Weathers Cover Design by Catamount Mayhugh Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Visionaria y Metafísica
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