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Flashes and Specks - Price: $12.95
by Mark Pogodzinski, ISBN: 978-1438221267
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MATH,MADNESS AND THE END OF THE WORLD.
This is the story of Henry Kent, father, husband, and superhero. A riveting tale or right versus wrong, of faith versus logic, and of the tenuous nature of reality and sanity.
Fast paced and original in style, the book is a portrait of one man's attempt to maintain his life in the face of madness, torture, and the end of the world.
For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Alan Moore and William Faulkner.
You've never read anything like Flashes and Specks.
"This is all that is, this is all that matters. The small things are inconsequential, because each decision, each choice is at its core this truth: you're either a hero or you're
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Biography :
Mark Pogodzinski lives in Buffalo New York. Flashes and Specks is his first published work. It is the first of the three that make up his "Suburban Trilogy" along with The Ceremony of Innocence, now available and The Valley of Ashes, available spring of 2010.
Book Review :
Flashes and Specks provides an entertaining and thought provoking story for every type of reader. Character driven and fast paced the book delves into questions of sanity, faith, life and death, parental relationships and comic books. Similar in style to Cormac McCarthy and Alan Moore, the scenes are constructed to allow the reader freedom of interpretation. The combination of style, characters and plot are thrilling in their originality. Full of double meaning, from the character names to the chapter titles to the eventual climax, the novel keeps readers riveted without alienating them. The reader is drawn into the world of Henry Kent where the mundane meets the extraordinary, but is the extraordinary real or simply a construct of a delusional mind? Then there's Henry's son who sees more than most and is haunted by those visions. The interplay between these two main characters is thoroughly engaging and heart wrenching. A subplot involving the possible end of the world hangs over the characters giving each action meaning beyond the obvious. It is the notion of wonder found in the everyday that gives the book its strength. What does one do when a father dies? When a co-worker is sick? When we question all meaning? Set in a suburb, but always described in manner that leads the reader to understand there's more beneath the surface, the characters go about their lives that seem incredible and very familiar. Flashes and Specks is well worth the read and is highly recommended.
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