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The Blindfold Test

by Barry Schechter
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A raucous comedy about a paranoid loser who maybe wasn't paranoid enough...

In the sixties, Jeffrey Parker briefly attended an antiwar rally. He wasn't all that interested—he just listened to a few speeches, and went home...and nothing was ever the same.

In this wildly comic novel, Parker's brief dalliance is the beginning of the end. He never lands a decent job. Women never stick around. He has terrible stretches of bad luck, and is the unwilling victim of just plain bizarre occurances: once, he comes home to find that the final page in every one of his books has been removed.

Then Parker discovers that he's been the target of a government plot—like the FBI's real-life COINTELPRO—and the obsession of a rogue FBI agent who just won't give up.

This outrageously imaginative debut is reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole's explosive, out-of-nowhere farce A Confederacy of Dunces. Part thriller, part national tragedy, and all hysterical comedy,...

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  • Release date

    May 19, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781612198835

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781612198835
      • File size: 873 KB

  • Accessibility

  • Languages

    • English

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English