The One-Eyed Man

✍ Scribed by Currie, Ron

• Book ID: 109940038
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 595 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780735222809

✦ Synopsis

From the "startlingly talented" (New York Times) author of _Everything Matters! --_the compelling story of a man who takes everything far too literally, and his adventures as the star of a reality TV show
Ron Currie's three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality, audacity, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination, Currie excels at creating complex, troubled, yet endearing characters, and his work has won comparison to everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to George Saunders.
K, the intriguing narrator of Currie's new novel, joins the ranks of other great American literary creations who show us something new about ourselves. Like Jack Gladney from White Noise, K is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world, and like Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces , he is a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies, K...