When two suburban retirees decide to enter the marijuana trade for extra spending money, it doesn’t take long for things to go haywire. First one of their distributors plunges off the deep end, while the other becomes the object of a conspiracy-minded neighbor’s bizarre fixation. Then there comes a court case, multiple, hysterical calls to 911 and an utterly harebrained burglary, as everyone’s peculiar symptoms deteriorate. Meanwhile, the lives of other neighbors, from DEA agents to smarmy lobbying lawyers who avidly peruse the pages of Peddling magazine are linked to the lunacy of the main characters. In short, Homegrown could easily be called a comic meditation on mental illness.
This sprawling novel, set in the 1960s and the two decades that followed, depicts a large group of hippies, anti-war activists, and political radicals as they participate in the volcanic events of an era that changed the United States.
In this second volume of the series, "The Human Struggle," fighters attempt to stave off a reality collapse in a universe contiguous to earth's. The enemy, determined to extirpate humanity from this and all alternate realities, is sacking, burning, conquering and murdering his way through the cosmos, and now enemy storm troopers have found a doorway into earth and are filtering into our world. Fighters and the visionaries they work with, guardians, struggle to keep them at bay, while a lonely few of their number must journey far behind enemy lines to destroy the power which keeps humanity losing the war that has been fought off-world for millennia. From the first shot at the story's opening to the search for a guardian replaced by his doubles, to the white-hot fireballs with which angels destroy enemy commanders, Zone of Illusion portrays a non-stop sci-fi/fantasy war of the worlds.
div class=Section1> This comic novel set in the world of New York City real estate in the late 1970s and early 1980s chronicles the coming of age of Clara Chimes, who want to be a scientist. But her overbearing aunt wants her in the family business. Brilliant though not particularly good at standing up for herself, Clara flounders through her familys upper class Republican milieu only to loose her way. Clara becomes lost in the world of the housing court, crazed and somewhat corrupt judges, and tenant organizing, and she also struggles with her aunts cancer. Minor characters abound, and some are hilarious, especially Claras Republican voting, health-food-eating eccentric friends from the Main Line. After a tour of Claras somewhat wacky acquaintance, the reader sees her settle for something not her first choice, but still very good.
When Winnie Teitlebaum decides to commit suicide, little does she anticipate that she will be interrupted by a burglar. But she is, and her suicidal concentration is shattered. Thus begins the rather wacky relationship at the center of Reluctant Reaper, a comedy about a group of zany suburbanites, some of them quite addle-pated, some rather nuts. Some are elderly, with one foot literally in the grave. They dodder about, colliding occasionally with younger, sometimes scheming residents, some of whom have big and often shady plans to get rich. Set in Maryland in the summer of 2009, amid swine flu hysteria and the first steps of a new president, this novel, mostly in dialogue, portrays hypochondriacs, colorful eccentrics and one raving lunatic-all thrown together whether they like it or not. And when they don't, they are not shy about vociferously, hilariously complaining. Eve Ottenberg has published four novels and several short stories. Her criticism and journalism has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker "In Brief" section, and The Washington Post, and she has written a political column for The Village Voice.
The posh hamlet of Spuckelsburg outside Washington, D.C. is up in arms. A terrifying plan is afoot, to run a mass transit line right into the residents' opulent midst. Ready to fight, they have retained the services of a mad though ruthlessly effective lawyer, who showers his generous share of the massive settlements he wins on Las Vegas slot machines, exotic dancers and the insanely conspiracy-minded political cult to which he belongs. Thus begins SUBURBIA, a comic novel about a group of well-heeled ninnies, who band together to protect their property values. No matter that some of them are so dim-witted they can scarcely follow a sentence with a relative clausethey know a threat when they see it. From the Viagra support group, to a lunatic's campaign for mayor on an anti-pepper spray plank, SUBURBIA presents one wildly hilarious situation after another with unforgettably eccentric characters. Eve Ottenberg has published five other novels and several short stories. Her criticism and journalism have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker. In Brief section, The Washington Post, and she has written a political column for The Village Voice.
The Widows Opera is the story of people whose lives have been uprooted by the cataclysms of the twentieth century World War II, Stalins purges and, earlier, the Armenian Genocide. The novel chronicles the life of Ursa Smirny, a Polish refugee in New York City. It also recounts her friendship with the ruthless Nina Morphy, and Ninas mysterious husband, nicknamed Morpheus by the murderers, thieves and other felons of the prisons where he spends his time. Among the many minor characters, some are comic, like the benighted Mr. Darkwood and some otherworldly, like Mr. Tannini; a self-styled nineteenth-century humanist and bibliophile. But it is also a story of betrayal, murder and revenge that moves quickly from the first page to the last.
Off-world, the war against humanity rages on, with angels and fighters battling to contain it, as in the previous three books in this series, "The Human Struggle." Meanwhile, on earth, immense developments are afoot, which could alter human history by deeply involving the divine feminine. But mankind's enemies, aware of earth, have established their own corporation here to promote the planet's demise. As fighters from the previous books infiltrate this deadly corporation, another fighter, Rafael Orozco, finds himself sidelined, only to learn that his new job means protecting someone, whose appearance on earth may be too momentous to hide. Eve Ottenberg has published a dozen other novels and a collection of short stories. Her criticism, journalism and short fiction have appeared in many newspapers, magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker "In Brief" section, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, and she has written weekly political columns for The Village Voice.
This comic novel follows a twenty-something on the make in the idiot world of climate change denial. Set in Miami and Washington, D.C., Carbon makes fun of buffoonery, ignorance, corruption and outright greed, all of which stand between humanity and a reasonable solution to the spiraling catastrophe of a rapidly warming planet. The story also satirizes the utterly shameless amorality of supermarket tabloids, as they plunge into the climate change debate, denying global warming is a problem.. This novel is above all a comedy and full of laughs from the first page to the last.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," says the biblical proverb, and it applies to most of the characters in this new novel, Hope Deferred. This is a story about people in their twenties, in Philadelphia, in the years leading up and into the Trump presidency. It is about the precariousness of life and sanity, and how just one mistake can ruin everything. It also depicts how weak the good is in the world, concerned as it often is with loss, family complications and the struggle of finding a way through life. .
An elegy . . . about what happens under the noise of headline news, and how the lives of the survivors are lived after those headlines fade--the silent, invisible true casualty toll of war.--James Wolcott, "Vanity Fair" columnist.
An elegy . . . about what happens under the noise of headline news, and how the lives of the survivors are lived after those headlines fade--the silent, invisible true casualty toll of war.--James Wolcott, "Vanity Fair" columnist.
In this book Eve writes many sayings, quotes, beliefs, some poems, and whatever comes into her mind. Her sole purpose is to bring inspiration to people throughout all walks of life. Having a daily thought and reflection and keeping an upbeat attitude can bring forth positive attributes to which anyone can be strong with purity of ones heart and mind. Broadening the mind, soul, and body can be the biggest stronghold to which all people across the world can earn and learn their own self-worth as a human being. Knowing the true meaning on ones celestial stones of birth has been known since the days of 450 BC.
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