"Mysticus" by Randall Silvis
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$9.95. Ebook in pdf format delivered via email. It is 1949...when a glance from a starlet named Marilyn Monroe can and does change men's lives. And it is 2001...when the pouty smile of a teenage prostitute on Sunset Boulevard throws history into a tailspin. And it is 2018...when one drop of an illegal perfume called Moon Over Eros unleashes a sexual pandemonium that threatens to destroy the world. It is Mysticus, a masterpiece of invention that weaves together three storylines into one stunning novel about the consequences of love, sex, and power. In Mysticus author Randall Silvis, with an aching vision of loss reminiscent of Ragtime, does not confine himself to one small bump along the space-time continuum. The story begins with nine-year-old Ronald Shepard, the son of servants to a millionaire playboy who lives on a private island off the coast of South Carolina. Here Ronald crashes headfirst into power, greed, ambition, and an obsession with sex that will control his life—for it is here that Ronald meets Marilyn Monroe, a goddess of seduction whose presence sweeps through the book like an avalanche. In the meantime, a middle-aged Ronald discovers Cassandra DeRoy, a Sunset Boulevard teeny-bopper hooker who bears a dizzying resemblance to Marilyn. The two weeks they spend together plumbing mind-bending psychosexual depths will bring a half-dozen innocents to ruin. In the meantime, a sixteen-year-old named Ginger Todd hitchhikes illegally across America, in search of the parents she has never known. Her odyssey, fueled in part by a banned and mind-altering perfume, introduces her to the madhouse SADfacs (substance abuser dependency facilities), Kervorkian Serenity Centers, a roving band of mystics known as Kerouacs, and a counterfeit democracy swollen out of control. Here too she meets an elderly Ronald and his spiritual alter-ego, a fetus in a jar. Praised by the Midwest Book Review as "a symphony of cosmic loneliness displaying a consummate mastery of prose, Mysticus is a kindred spirit to Slaughterhouse Five and The World According to Garp." It is also, in the words of author Lee. K. Abbott, "that rarest of rare books, the one that stays in the brain long after the hands have put it down, the book that heaves the heart as much as it haunts the head, the book for the longest of the long runs that yet remain..." ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randall Silvis is the prodigiously talented author of The Luckiest Man In the World, Excelsior, Under the Rainbow, Dead Man Falling, Blood and Ink," On Night's Shore, and the widely acclaimed An Occasional Hell, made into a major motion picture starring Tom Berenger. Silvis's numerous literary awards include two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Login to review this product