No Birds Sing Here
READING AGE 16+
<b>The search for the literary life. Satire at its Best!</b><br><br>In this indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time, two young people, Beckman and Malany set out on an odyssey to find meaning and reality in the artistic life, and in doing so unleash a barrage of humorous, unintended consequences.<br><br>Beckman and Malany's journey reflects the allegorical evolution of humanity from its primal state, represented by Beckman's dismal life as a dishwasher to the crude, medieval development of mankind in a pool hall, and then to the false but erudite veneer of sophistication of the academic world.<br><br>The world these protagonists live in is a world without love. It has every other variety of drive and emotion, but not love. Do they know it? Not yet. And they won't until they figure out why no birds sing here.<br><br><b>Meier's writing is precise and detailed, whether the situation he describes is clear or ambiguous.<br><br>Fans of Franzen and Salinger will find Meier to be another sharp, provocative writer of our time.</b>
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After Beckman had handed in his breakfast tray, he strode back to the corner of the cell where he had spent the night. His thinking was a little clearer now, less fractured by his own mental spasms of self-reproach and the exterior shouts from other cells. There had been a fight in the next cell during the night. He could hear the grunts and blo……
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