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Wrequiem at the Red Rocks: A Novel of Brutalist Satire & Futile Gestures
Paperback
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
Publisher: Layla Dog Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 410
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pulls few punches when it comes to cultural, educational, social, economic, philosophical, sexual, or linguistic issues. Pick up Wrequiem.
-Arizona Daily Star
I found myself gasping and chortling. The author skewers these times as adeptly as Ian McEwan's Solar or Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry. Wrequiem proves that satire is alive and well and living in Arizona.
-CarbonGuy, reviewer
Stumbled upon the book of the year...I nearly died laughing.
-Robert N., reviewer
When attendees at the Neo-Anthropocentric Models of Retrospective Freedoms colloquium arrive in spiritual Sedona, they become facilitator Bradley Maniopolos's problem. Scholarly debate immediately devolves into who has freedom, who doesn't, who's getting it, who confers it, who assumes it, who guarantees it, and why the hell anyone cares. All the while pontificating on stolen land.
But Bradley has problems of his own. Looming retirement. His identity. Personal issues of a private nature he'd rather not talk about. Too bad his best friend can't keep his mouth shut, and the billionaire benefactors are keeping tabs through social media.
In the tradition of Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Sellout, Wrequiem at the Red Rocks makes you laugh until you see yourself. Then you cry. Earning the highest praise from readers, Wrequiem's brutalist satire slams a wrecking ball into the hypocrisies we flawed humans depend on-and vociferously deny.
The humor and satire are biting ... one of the best pieces of satire, I've read.
-LMC, reviewer
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