Another Selzer Novel: We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?

Richard Selzer continues his prolific run with his latest novel, We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?

It is available on Amazon, Booklocker, Target and GoodReads.   Here is the “blurb” about the book:

Elle and Oz, strangers ready to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark abandoned house. They soon sense that these stories are coming from an unknown source. It’s as if they are watching the stories rather than telling them.

Then they become actors inside the stories, seeing and hearing as if they were the characters, affecting outcomes but still conscious of their separate contemporary selves in the dark abandoned house, their attraction heightened by this mysterious adventure.

The stories transform: the two become characters from the Odyssey and Genesis, facing challenges in previous lives, challenges that they meet head-on.

Finally, and they find themselves in a future where whole populations have transferred themselves to (or been absorbed into) a massive computer network. The human cycle of birth, death, and rebirth will end. They will live in that network forever. But Elle and Oz have a choice.

Here’s what I mean about a “prolific run.”    These are just the titles published since November!

We All Are Shakespeare  (novel)  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958878790

Why Knot? (essays) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Knot-Personal-Richard-Seltzer/dp/1958878472

Echoes from the Attic (novel) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPVWSBXN

The Lizard of Oz and Other Stories (second edition plus other stories) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958878200

Grandad Jokes https://www.amazon.com/Grandad-Jokes-Trump-Other-Nonsense/dp/1958877964

 

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