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The Blindfold Test

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About the Book

In the 1960s, Jeffrey Parker briefly attended an anti-war rally. He wasn't all that interested - just listened to a few speeches and went home, but nothing was ever the same again. In this wildly comic novel, Parker's brief dalliance is the beginning of the end. He never lands a decent job. Women never stick around. He has terrible stretches of bad luck and is the unwitting victim of plain bizarre occurrences. Then Parker discovers that he's been the target of a government plot and the obsession of a rogue FBI agent who just won't give up.

About the Author :
Barry Schechter is a life-long resident of Chicago. He has written for the "Paris Review," the "Chicago Tribune," and the "Chicago Review." This is his first novel.

Review :
"Reading "Blindfold Test "is a new and radical pleasure. Barry Schechter regards the dirty tricks with which life undoes his protagonist-the nightmare neighbors and prodigious happenings-with a kind of glee. We are reminded that Kafka was supposed to have held his sides laughing while he read friends his stories."
-Lore Segal, author of "Shakespeare's Kitchen"

""The Blindfold Test" is a beautiful and terrifying pleasure, a metaphysically witty novel rich with melancholy joie de vivre." -Matthew Sharpe, author of "The Sleeping Father

""part-comedy, part-thriller...."The Blindfold Test "is blanketed with paranoia, quite Kafkaesque..."
--NewcityLit

"the kind of novel Woody Allen and Hunter S. Thompson would've written together if they could've gotten along....That Schechter can combine HST's gonzo morality and pacing with Allen's deadpan is almost too much. But still, we couldn't get enough."
--Jonathan Messinger, TimeOut Chicago

"The slapstick comedy...never entirely drowns out an undercurrent of hard-won paranoia. And the best thing that Schechter does, the thing that earns his book a deserved double take, happens when you hear the conspiratorial whispers yourself."
--Philadelphia City Paper

."..a funny book with lots of local color."
--"Chicago Reader"PDF


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781933633749
  • Publisher: Melville House Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing
  • Height: 191 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Weight: 387 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1933633743
  • Publisher Date: 10 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 140 mm


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