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ABOUT THIS BOOK | CONTENTS
[COVERS]
Thoughts
on Vacation
pretty much sums up the subject matter and
the style of this novel. It is a comedy of
manners about raising children and how we
are raised by them. This is the 6th novel
in the "My Years of Apprenticeship at
Love" sextet. In it we watch the main
character, Walker Underwood, as he matures
into being a father.
It
is a novel in the form of Walker’s
emotional memories and creative
experiences as he struggles to deal with
the suffering and loss of a loved one.
This compels him to query current thinking
to understand our place in the world.
The
story is told in third person narrative
shifting into first person narrative
through writing—intimate letters and
moving stories. Within the stories we
enter fantasy and dreams or exit outside
the character through
‘bookmovies’.
A
long chapter—Mr. I (Crossing the
Brain / Blood Barrier) presents the
current zeitgeist in the hard-science
style of sci-fi, a fiction that is a
streamlined information space where the
art is in the creative juxtapositioning of
ideas. Thoughts on Vacation, gives a
hopeful picture of this generation’s
thought and will raise your IQ if you let
it.
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