Seymour, Constance and Irving. Three protagonists'from vastly different backgrounds intimately share a very public secret. One therapist who impacts them all.
From Steubenville, Ohio (Seymour) to Boardman, Ohio (Constance) to Brookline, Massachusetts (Irving) - the three protagonist's imaginative and individual experiences are detailed. From humorus to outrageous to tragic, the reader is taken on a journey that ends in New York City.
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Seymour's therapist and best selling author on his murders would make a big deal out of his rust belt upbringing. The book would lay out this fact as a perfect analogy for Seymour's personal decay, as well as become a manifesto on split personalities. No one really knew why. Irving and Constance thought it was because the American people had been waiting for a novel like this to come out. They just didn't know it until it was published. Irving Hanhart's Al-Anon group would have put it like this: "although we can't change the direction of the wind which blew us here, we can adjust the sails." Constance Powers would have liked for the city of Steubenville to receive an enema from the Almighty. Constance's idea of enemas was the type that introduced liquids into one's rectum and colon via the asshole.
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
