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August Franza
PANDEMONIUM describes the chaotic and surreal world of Amerika where anti-heroes Straw and Giacomo Giacomo plan their escape and go in search for three women in fabulous Oklo-homa. In THE…
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BUGHOUSE AND OTHER LUNACIES are plays designed for laughter and other emotions. Author info: see augustfranza.com
A Family Failure is a novel about Hank Drummer, who spends his short life trying to overcome the pressures and demands of a powerful, aggressive, and tyrannical father. Because he…
BLOCKHEAD is made up of stories, poems, essays, nudgies, and brickbats.
The Thirst We Have is about a day in the life of an embattled teacher. From dawn to bed time, Joe Monte dallies with his students, his colleagues, his wife…
Joseph Kaye’s life is a muddle and it’s his father’s fault. Jacob Kaye has made an important decision for his son that alters his life and his way of thinking…
From the penthouse on the sixtieth floor of a high-rise building, he watches the planes hit the towers of World Trade Center. He is calm; he is tying his tie…
Jay Axelrod kills man in moments of unpremeditated fear and passion. Filled with guilt, he is ready to confess but authorities do not believe him because there is no victim…
As Harry Wilknott stumbles thru life doubting himself, he encounters a riddle in the form of the man in the red beret. Who is he and why has he latched…
THREE WOMEN is about Eleanor, Helen, and Rana-- their ambitions, their indignities, and their fates.
Johnston Smith, a New Yorker, is on the run from a scandal. He travels America to find a new direction. His goal is California where a job and a woman…
By chance, Sieglinde and Evelyne have fallen deeply in love under extraordinary personal circumstances. As a devoted couple, they set out to live their love fully; it grows and prospers…
CUCKOO SONGS is composed of one story told twice. The first is experimental in which letters of words are switched to create new words, new sounds, many puns. The effect…
Writing Myself to Death is a novel about the inscrutable lives, existential uncertainties, loves, hates, idiocies, and masquerades of Max, A., and Mr. Kiss. Here’s another way of putting it…
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Fast, funny, serious: That’s life in the tumultuous 1960s, the setting for this novel about public education as seen through the eyes of Michal America, an idealistic teacher. His education…
