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by O. Thoreau
Paperback, in 2 volumes
Comic novel, 192,000 words
Vol. 1 (276 pages), ISBN: 0927379686 ... $ 18.00
Vol. 2 (276 pages), ISBN: 0927379694 ... $ 18.00
Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) depicts a futuristic society where politicians utilize technology to deceive their citizens so that they "love their servitude". In a Foreword to a reprint of the novel (written in 1951) Huxley claims that the biggest flaw in his story is that a protagonist ("the Savage") is given only two alternatives. Huxley writes: "If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative ... in a community of exiles and refugees from the Brave New World."
The comic novel Thoreau Bound (January 2007, Zorba Press) might be the third alternative — between the technological utopians and the computer-smashing neo-Luddites — that Huxley had in mind.
O. Thoreau has more problems than Hamlet. Like his ancestor Henry David, he is pummeled by the mass-culture that substitutes an artificial life for a real one, and deadens his creative genius. To find his authentic self he needs solitude — yet everywhere he wanders women flutter and fall around him like October leaves. With sixty books in his pack and fifty bucks in his pocket, the wanderlusting Thoreau saunters through the heart of modern Greece. Here he encounters a dozen extraordinary women and men, each one who has left the beaten path to search for a more glorious existence. In the middle of his journey, Thoreau discovers a hilarious Utopia, a community ruled by women where sex is celebrated, love is taught, nothing is forbidden and anything goes.
Thoreau Bound explores the problems and themes of love, eros, and the search for an authentic and meaningful life. The era of Don Juans and the exploitation of women is ending; a new model of human relationships is about to dawn. In the utopias of the future, women and men will relate as equal partners, nourishing each other with the utmost passion and sincerity.
Barry Palm, in BookLovers Review writes: "Thoreau Bound is a brave new world of a book, and thoroughly enchanting! A joyful, bawdy, Rabelaisian comedy about the beauty, complexity, and mystery of human relationships. D. H. Lawrence, a rebel not unlike Thoreau, had wanted to call his novel Lady Chatterly's Lover, 'Tenderness'. Tenderness between women and men is the exquisite essence of this book."
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