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WHO IS PETE SUSSMAN? Pete Sussman is HAUNTED by strange dreams, FIXATED on relationships that have slipped through his fingers, and OBSESSED by the finality of death. On top of it all, he's just quit his job and needs to go into the hospital for surgery. How's he going to manage without CRACKING UP? Maybe his coworker Lisa-a.k.a. "the Countess Lisa"-will help him...Or will she just reject him like so many others in his TUMULTUOUS life? THE WOMEN the SEDUCTIVE classmate! the SULTRY professor! the calculating MISTRESS! What part do they play in the life of a man TORTURED by the nature of…mehr

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WHO IS PETE SUSSMAN? Pete Sussman is HAUNTED by strange dreams, FIXATED on relationships that have slipped through his fingers, and OBSESSED by the finality of death. On top of it all, he's just quit his job and needs to go into the hospital for surgery. How's he going to manage without CRACKING UP? Maybe his coworker Lisa-a.k.a. "the Countess Lisa"-will help him...Or will she just reject him like so many others in his TUMULTUOUS life? THE WOMEN the SEDUCTIVE classmate! the SULTRY professor! the calculating MISTRESS! What part do they play in the life of a man TORTURED by the nature of consciousness and TORMENTED by the reality of a world gone completely INSANE? Can they help him understand the weird dreams he keeps having about the New York World's Fair-- or at least make sure he's safely under the covers before his SLEEPING PILLS kick in? This eclectic collection of poems (some in fixed forms, some in free verse) is the sometimes funny, sometimes SHOCKING tale of a man preoccupied by the EDGES OF LANGUAGE and the END OF MEMORY. Writer Herb Guggenheim doesn't let up. He'll wring every last drop of emotion out of you then go for more. The Further Adventures of Pete Sussman is a real gut punch of a read-a searing examination of the realities of modern life-a book you'll be talking about for years to come! YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!
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Autorenporträt
Herb Guggenheim was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. After barely graduating from high school and stumbling through four years of college, Herb crash-landed in graduate school, studying creative writing at American University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Johns Hopkins University. He studied poetry writing with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor, fiction writing with award-winning novelists Frederick Barthelme and John Barth. After earning an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, Herb taught English and creative writing at several colleges and universities. Finding himself suddenly middle-aged and, craving a change of pace, he became a licensed clinical social worker and currently maintains a small private practice in the D.C. suburbs. Over the years, Herb's poems and short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Chrome Baby, the Eunoia Review, the Florida Review, Gargoyle, Gutter Eloquence, Kalkion, the Main Street Rag, Poetry Quarterly, Schlock, the Unrorean, and the Washington Review. Herb's poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net award, and has received four honorable mentions in the Writer's Digest annual writing competition. At this writing, his novel Violations of Causality is a finalist in the Foreword INDIES 2016 Book of the Year Award competition.