Kingston Fugue
the new novel by Adam E. Stone





Now available from Global Dialogue Press -
literary psychological fiction you won't want to miss!

What others are saying about Kingston Fugue:

"On every page of Kingston Fugue, Adam E. Stone unflinchingly offers the burning coals of human loss.
 From the raw force of this tragic novel's great heat, raptures and tearing rants and keenings arise.
 Stone's bold storytelling will embolden readers' silent hearts to sing their griefs full-blast."

- Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico,
Hyssop, Little Peg, The Fifth Station, and A Waltz


"Part fable, part fantasy, part psychological study, Adam E. Stone's Kingston Fugue is an excursion
 into the consciousness of working-class hero Jackson Williamson - as in his earlier novel,
 Xamon Song, Stone displays an excellent understanding of a proletarian worldview
 that ultimately touches upon the universal truth that each of us must
 transcend our circumstances in order to survive."

- Phil St. Clair, author of Acid Creek

Synopsis:

 What leads a seemingly normal young father of two to vanish without a trace, to leave behind
 his family, his job, and the life he has known?  That is one of the questions Adam E. Stone     
 explores in Kingston Fugue.  In prose that is both lush and lyrical, Stone takes readers             
 into the world of Jackson Williamson as he struggles to understand, and explain, himself       
 in the aftermath of a dissociative fugue - a rare psychological condition similar to amnesia,    
 but accompanied by a sudden, unexpected flight from one's home and surroundings.               
  Jackson's world is one in which reality is a slippery concept: one in which Hondscio, the          
 900-year-old lead singer of the institution band the Catatonics, is both best friend and            
 confidant; in which redemption begins with an explanation, an apologia from an absent         
father to the children who no longer know him; and in which understanding lies, if                  
anywhere, in the ability of a lovely intern named Daniella to see that Jackson Williamson      
 is not at all what others think him to be.  In telling Jackson's story, Stone engages themes     
 such as the role of the nonconformist in contemporary American society, the relativity of      
many of our conceptions of mental illness, the gritty economic realities of the working poor,
and the complex, often contradictory, relationship between memory, personality, will, and   
reality.  Add to this a literary structure that mirrors the musical form of the fugue, in which  
the theme of a piece is extended and developed mainly by imitative counterpoint, and the     
  result is Kingston Fugue - a must-read for anyone interested in literary psychological fiction.


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