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Benny
Henderson works for the Company, an increasingly
influential multinational organization. In a city
where the occupants embrace freedom from choice,
his love for co-worker Louise is the only thing
that matters.
Enter this world one Moon Beaver, a girl with
one foot in the past and the other in the future,
who attempts to manipulate time by remaining in
the present to achieve heartfelt immortality.
A one-woman cult blending a Sixties hippie philosophy
with a post–tech boom head for business,
Moon Beaver embraces hypocrisy for her own game
plan and is indifferent to the consequences (so
long as they work out in her favor). Embroiled
in her self-perpetuating fantasy, she isolates
Benny from his past, leading her bewildered disciple
on a whirlwind tour of Bournemouth, Moscow, and
Bangkok, drip-feeding her ideology like Chinese
water torture.
In the meantime, Louise pieces together Moon’s
past from the barest of information, trying to
find an angle from which she can reclaim her lover.
And in American Midwest, an overweight chicken
farmer mulls over the detritus of his life and
lost love, while stubbornly resisting the takeover
of his business by a large, familiar Company.
Packed with wisecracks, cynicism, and naive hope,
Moon Beaver examines the meaning of “self”
in a society where individuality is a commodity
and wasted lives are commonplace.
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“The
writing is excellent. It draws you in from the
beginning, and holds your attention even when
not much is actually happening plotwise. There
are superb images and symbols, such as . . . in
the fire, ‘the lipstick trace had disappeared,
melted away like pink snow in a pale landscape.’
An unusual — and I think successful —
feature of the novel are the authorial asides
and comments on modern life — and on the
novel itself. . . . My own favourite is: ‘But
no telephone began to ring, as it might have done
in a lesser novel.’ The trips made by Moon
and Benny — especially in Thailand —
give a wonderful feel for the country. My mouth
watered on seeing once again those magical words
‘durian’ and ‘rambutan’!”
— Steve Redwood, Whispers
of Wickedness
“‘Comic fantasy’ has long been established
as a sub-genre, but we’re dealing with something
very different here. . . . You might say that
[Moon Beaver] contributes to a rather
quirky current of ‘comic slipstream,’
even though that elusive thing called slipstream
hasn’t been noted for laugh-generating properties.
In fact, those with long memories may remember
when certain writers of slipstream had been tagged
‘miserablists.’ There isn’t
any of that old miserablism here, though serious
matters are touched upon with a light hand.”
— Roseanne Rabinowitz,
LauraHird.com
“If you
like novels that take risks with narrative and
where you don’t know what to expect from
one page to the next, if you want to read books
that are not afraid to tackle the big issues,
but do so in a non-portentous way and with a smile
on their face, then the sexy and sassy Moon
Beaver may just be the girl you’re
looking for.”
— Peter Tennant,
ttapress.com
trade
paperback
5.25" X 8.25"
250 pp.
list price $19
ISBN-13: 978-0-9728321-5-1
ISBN-10: 0-9728321-5-7
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