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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
The final stand-alone novel in The Adventures of a Dying Young Man Series. Started in 2006 author Andrew H. K. has followed a character whose direct lineage is a Postmodern Tom Sawyer. Everything stops in the year 2096, but first we go to the swamps: Henry has roamed trying to sit at his typewriter and tap the Great American Novel. But it hasn't happened and doubt it will, because out the window no matter what window, the world keeps blowing things up. So Henry, older now, living in the future, where zeppelins have replaced clouds, where the gadget called Brainpodz has replaced much of critical thinking, where the hip kids are now Cybernik Poets & Neo Mod Nature Cats, who hang in speakeasies and rave in electrified pools; The Future is no place for a novelist; as Henry Oldfield says himself, "This is the end my faceless friends. The end of the story, just a story, about how it came to this:"
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
The final stand-alone novel in The Adventures of a Dying Young Man Series. Started in 2006 author Andrew H. K. has followed a character whose direct lineage is a Postmodern Tom Sawyer. Everything stops in the year 2096, but first we go to the swamps: Henry has roamed trying to sit at his typewriter and tap the Great American Novel. But it hasn't happened and doubt it will, because out the window no matter what window, the world keeps blowing things up. So Henry, older now, living in the future, where zeppelins have replaced clouds, where the gadget called Brainpodz has replaced much of critical thinking, where the hip kids are now Cybernik Poets & Neo Mod Nature Cats, who hang in speakeasies and rave in electrified pools; The Future is no place for a novelist; as Henry Oldfield says himself, "This is the end my faceless friends. The end of the story, just a story, about how it came to this:"