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Brutus
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781502575142
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 20 2015
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Brutus is the loudest and youngest of thirteen children. He is eccentric, self-important, and defiantly unconventional. Living in squalor with a one-legged alcoholic in a ditch under the interstate, he decides to move in with his brother, where he parks himself on the sofa and simply gets fatter.
The family soon stages an intervention, and with grudging support from his twelve siblings, they move Brutus into his own apartment.
Left to his own devices, Brutus stares out at the city, scavenges for signs of the previous tenant, and trolls the Internet for companionship, all but forcing himself on unsuspecting neighbors, clowns, pigeons, and marmosets. But his experience in a rancid back alley, where he is tempted by a succession of unseemly women, prompts him to start an Internet venture as an offbeat counselor. His business booms, resulting in a series of unexpected consequences. Will his unique personality save him or finally be his undoing?
In the same vein as A Confederacy of Dunces, author Leonard Vernon Sacks brings to life an outlandish character full of zany wisdom and uncompromising optimism who refuses to be shackled by societal norms.
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