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Anticlimax Leviathan
"Anticlimax Leviathan" is the true story of a strange young man from Detroit. A blue collar worker for the auto industry, our metal/punk Anti-Hero has big dreams. Breaking into journalism, he soon becomes a taxi driver, music promoter & filmmaker before hitting the road as a traveling counterculture journalist.
Ending up in Seattle a haunted drifter, he finds himself homeless after the Wall Street crash of 2008 & lustfully embraces "the street," re-creating himself as lead in his own bizarre punk rock romance novel. Along the way he meets a legion of "street crazies" whom unite to form a global movement called "Free Therapy."
Together they build a new world from the ashes of their ghost lives, all which leads to a massive road saga through America & Europe -- climaxing with the Occupy protests of 2011.
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Ending up in Seattle a haunted drifter, he finds himself homeless after the Wall Street crash of 2008 & lustfully embraces "the street," re-creating himself as lead in his own bizarre punk rock romance novel. Along the way he meets a legion of "street crazies" whom unite to form a global movement called "Free Therapy."
Together they build a new world from the ashes of their ghost lives, all which leads to a massive road saga through America & Europe -- climaxing with the Occupy protests of 2011.
**Free Download = search Google & Facebook
460 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2016
4 people want to read
About the author
Ryan Bartek
8 books7 followersRyan Bartek is a writer and musician from The United States, born & raised in Metro Detroit and now living in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of 7 books & head of Anomie Press, an upstart book company with 4 Paperback titles. Anomie PR is his firm, and Anomie Inc. his record label releasing works by Vulture Locust, SkullMaster, Sasquatch Agnostic, A.K.A. Mabus, and The Real Man In Black.
Known for his journalism in the metal/punk undergrounds due to his books and work for mass-market magazines & respected webzines, R. Bartek is widely known as a traveling writer who has toured the USA & Europe extensively, promoting his works as Free Downloads.
Bartek's books include "Anticlimax Leviathan" (2016), “The Big Shiny Prison" (2009), “Fortress Europe" (2012), "Unfilmed Cinema" (2020), "The Silent Burning" (2005), "To Live & Die On Zug Island" (2019) & "Return To Fortress Europe" (2018) -- all available via Anomie Press in print or as Free PDF Downloads online.
First Print Editions are available through Anomie Press via the Ingram Spark/LSI distribution network -- available at 55% wholesale discount to chain retailers in USA & Europe. Paperbacks are in the systems of 38,000+ booksellers worldwide, with many public & University libraries carrying them.
He is the author of 7 books & head of Anomie Press, an upstart book company with 4 Paperback titles. Anomie PR is his firm, and Anomie Inc. his record label releasing works by Vulture Locust, SkullMaster, Sasquatch Agnostic, A.K.A. Mabus, and The Real Man In Black.
Known for his journalism in the metal/punk undergrounds due to his books and work for mass-market magazines & respected webzines, R. Bartek is widely known as a traveling writer who has toured the USA & Europe extensively, promoting his works as Free Downloads.
Bartek's books include "Anticlimax Leviathan" (2016), “The Big Shiny Prison" (2009), “Fortress Europe" (2012), "Unfilmed Cinema" (2020), "The Silent Burning" (2005), "To Live & Die On Zug Island" (2019) & "Return To Fortress Europe" (2018) -- all available via Anomie Press in print or as Free PDF Downloads online.
First Print Editions are available through Anomie Press via the Ingram Spark/LSI distribution network -- available at 55% wholesale discount to chain retailers in USA & Europe. Paperbacks are in the systems of 38,000+ booksellers worldwide, with many public & University libraries carrying them.
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