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Gloucesterbook
Gloucesterbook is groundbreaking American fiction of the 20th century - one of four novels that make up the unconventional and stimulating literary masterpiece GLOUCESTERMAN.
In Gloucesterbook, the central character Caleb Karcist, absorbed in his consulting work, creative ideas, and love life, becomes intrigued by the politics, arts, and eccentric society of a fishing port (modeled on Gloucester, Massachusetts) called "Dogtown" on the Atlantic Coast's "Cape Gloucester" during the 1960s.
The novel describes a unique geography that draws to it people with unusual experiences and interests, including businessman Rafe Opsimath, avant-garde poet Ipsissimus Charlemagne, and Fathers Lucey and Duncannon of a tiny High Church religious order.
Through the web of Caleb's work life and friendships, this fiction - with its extraordinarily detailed observations, exuberant language, and quiet humor - weaves together ideas and feelings about business, history, politics, systems, ritual, and sex. This is a novel about mid-20th-century America as experienced in an exceptionally interesting Atlantic seaport where work, love, and creative mind come together.
In Gloucesterbook, the central character Caleb Karcist, absorbed in his consulting work, creative ideas, and love life, becomes intrigued by the politics, arts, and eccentric society of a fishing port (modeled on Gloucester, Massachusetts) called "Dogtown" on the Atlantic Coast's "Cape Gloucester" during the 1960s.
The novel describes a unique geography that draws to it people with unusual experiences and interests, including businessman Rafe Opsimath, avant-garde poet Ipsissimus Charlemagne, and Fathers Lucey and Duncannon of a tiny High Church religious order.
Through the web of Caleb's work life and friendships, this fiction - with its extraordinarily detailed observations, exuberant language, and quiet humor - weaves together ideas and feelings about business, history, politics, systems, ritual, and sex. This is a novel about mid-20th-century America as experienced in an exceptionally interesting Atlantic seaport where work, love, and creative mind come together.
496 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1992
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