The Chimera of Prague - Pryll, Rick
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Whether you lived there, just visited, or have been dreaming about Prague, this book will immerse you in just what it is that has captivated generations. Diving into the brokenness in himself, divorced twenty-something American expat, Joseph, allows us into his delicate dysfunction as he explores the magical, mystical, quirky city of Prague, chasing women and trying to understand his failed marriage. Joseph Przbylski Jr. is six feet tall, with a shock of inky black hair. In his signature tortoise-shell spectacles, he's contemplative, athletic, and lost. Freshly divorced, he quits his corporate…mehr

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Whether you lived there, just visited, or have been dreaming about Prague, this book will immerse you in just what it is that has captivated generations. Diving into the brokenness in himself, divorced twenty-something American expat, Joseph, allows us into his delicate dysfunction as he explores the magical, mystical, quirky city of Prague, chasing women and trying to understand his failed marriage. Joseph Przbylski Jr. is six feet tall, with a shock of inky black hair. In his signature tortoise-shell spectacles, he's contemplative, athletic, and lost. Freshly divorced, he quits his corporate job at a bank in Manhattan to spend some time abroad and find himself. He calls it a "gap year" a term reserved for kids between high school and college, or college graduates about to start their adult lives. For Joseph, it's a gap between his devastating divorce and his uncertain future. In his increasing loneliness, living in this magically romantic city, Joseph obsesses over a waitress. If it weren't for the parade of distracting women, he might have a shot with Karina, the tall slender Czech model-wanna-be. He keeps a journal and finds himself digging through fragments of memory to try and discover where things first went wrong in love. He starts at the end, the scene where he and his high school girlfriend go off, in opposite directions, to college. He progresses backward through their poignant, mostly-innocent romance to their first kiss, creating a tumultuous rendering of love lost The story-within-the-story is an ode to his home in Western New York. It is riddled with a barrage of 80's pop culture references. But the real love story here is between Joseph and his adopted city, Prague. Before he can find the relationship he craves,, Joseph may need to unearth a way to love himself again.
Autorenporträt
Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2002. The recipient of 2nd place in the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Awards, his latest book, La Chimere of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2020) shot up to #1 in the Psychological Literary subcategory on Amazon.His previous book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected as the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story "LIES" has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. While there he published two books including Displaced (Foolishness Press, 1998) and Wallow (Foolishness Press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of Think, Optimism, Ekleksographia, Prometheus Dreaming, and The Esthetic Apostle.Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.Rick was born on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.During the day, he works as a Data and Analytics expert in the Financial Services industry. He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.