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The Greatest Unit of Value
In the throes of yet another psychotic breakdown, Granger Callahan finds a discarded journal containing the writings of a frustrated, 23-year-old, would-be filmmaker named Zachary Klein. Zachary describes dreams, complains about his girlfriend and brainstorms about the short films he wants to make. His words take on new meaning for Granger, whose mind is open to anything and desperate for a message in a world he can no longer decipher. One journal entry sends him hitchhiking to San Francisco with promises of rolling hills, brilliant colors, happiness and – most of all – escape. Along the way, he meets Natalie Chambers, a grifting drug-addict, who finds an unexpected soft spot in her hardened heart when Granger bails her out of jail. For a moment, he and Natalie build something that resembles compatibility and love. If only the moment can last …
“Only a writer of substantial talent could have pulled off a novel about a man increasingly mired in insanity. Sadoff does so brilliantly, never losing his central character’s humanity. Granger’s condition is sensitively conceived, utterly convincing, even as it provides a profound insight into the so-called reality and sanity of us all.” – Naeem Murr, author of The Perfect Man
“Michael Sadoff is an exciting new voice with a veteran writer’s sense of the power of words and gift of storytelling. The Greatest Unit of Value is honest and authentic: an unflinching tale of angst-ridden young America in search of itself, often in the wrong places, with a road map that alternates between wisdom and madness.” – Robert Inman, author of Captain Saturday
“Only a writer of substantial talent could have pulled off a novel about a man increasingly mired in insanity. Sadoff does so brilliantly, never losing his central character’s humanity. Granger’s condition is sensitively conceived, utterly convincing, even as it provides a profound insight into the so-called reality and sanity of us all.” – Naeem Murr, author of The Perfect Man
“Michael Sadoff is an exciting new voice with a veteran writer’s sense of the power of words and gift of storytelling. The Greatest Unit of Value is honest and authentic: an unflinching tale of angst-ridden young America in search of itself, often in the wrong places, with a road map that alternates between wisdom and madness.” – Robert Inman, author of Captain Saturday
197 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2012
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Michael Sadoff
1 book5 followersMichael Sadoff’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast Online, South Carolina Review, Sixfold, and other journals. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of the 2024 Lit/South Award for Fiction, his current project, The Hotel Motel: 13 Stories, is about people in urgent need of connection. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.
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August 22, 2012
Definitely recommend this one! Great story and awesome message in well written fashion with some descriptive work that would make Steinbeck turn an eye. Granger, the main character, is my new hero! Nice job by a good author.
September 11, 2012
This was the best book I've read in a very long time. It's an extremely perceptive and clever presentation of a complex young man's strugglie and jouney through mental illness
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