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Title: Skulk
Author: Marc Estrin
Narrator: Anthony St. Pierre
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-25-12
Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Marc Estrin's Skulk is the sixth of his critically-acclaimed novels for lovers of intelligent fiction.
Richard Gronsky is swept off his feet by T.L. Skulkington, a sassy, right-wing superstar, during one of her liberal-bashing talks. Their romance struggles with contrasting politics until a run-in with Homeland Security brings Miss Skulkington's libertarian impulses to the fore: "Skulk" is won over to Gronsky's causes - secession of the Free State of Kansas, and 9/11 Truth.
So begins the couple's mad attempt to stage an Event which will awaken the Sunflower State to the Issues of the Day. Stirred by letters from John Brown's grave, they take flying lessons, and steal a Cessna to crash into Wichita's highest building. The listener is treated to a sophisticated parody of American political reality, a wild ride full of ironic twists and a stunning ending. In the Afterword, Estrin discusses his strategy in Skulk: to use comic fiction to probe dangerous real-world fictions parading as truth.
Critic Reviews:
"Marc Estrin has his finger on the pulse of American madnesses. Contemplating 9/11 conspiracies would be no laughing matter except in the hands of a writer who once (Insect Dreams) resurrected and apotheosized Gregor Samsa's discarded insect carcass. Now in Skulk, this master satririst raises questions of our national (ir)realities to breathless heights. As they used to say, "Right on!" (Peter Glassgold, author of Angel Max, Anarchy!)
Members Reviews:
Truth through Fiction
Marc Estrin's Skulk is like a crossword puzzle, a clever array of words and images skillfully woven into a story. Skulk may be fiction, but it speaks more truth than the 9/11 Commission Report.
Skulk
Marc Estrin's Skulk is a darkly entertaining comedy of misguided if well-intentioned political fumbling. Its unlikely pair of protagonists, coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum, hatch a scheme to make a complacent America ask, "Who really bombed the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?" But wait, wasn't the question of 9/11 answered in 2004 by a the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, otherwise known as the 9/11 Commission? Didn't they analyze 2.5 million pages of documents and interview 1,200 people to conclude that a global conspiracy operating under the name "Al Qaeda" orchestrated the attacks, helped along by U.S. intelligence failures? Why would Estrin push against this juggernaut of political analysis when expert scrutiny and our own eyes--via images of the day from the broadcast networks--have established the contours of this rubble-strewn landscape? And isn't a novel a rather lightweight vehicle with which to plow back the weight of settled history? Estrin's project is ambitious.
Estrin's characters and the America in which they dwell--represented here by the flat expanse of Kansas--exist in a post-9/11 world which is reminiscent of Frank Baum's Oz. Power is hidden and people generally feel unqualified to challenge it. Estrin's protagonists, like Dorothy and her friends, set out on a journey to change all this by hauling back the curtain of illusion so that the public can see the wires of stagecraft shaping their perception of the world. American democracy is depicted as a theater, its audience spell-bound into passivity.
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Title: Skulk
Author: Marc Estrin
Narrator: Anthony St. Pierre
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-25-12
Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Marc Estrin's Skulk is the sixth of his critically-acclaimed novels for lovers of intelligent fiction.
Richard Gronsky is swept off his feet by T.L. Skulkington, a sassy, right-wing superstar, during one of her liberal-bashing talks. Their romance struggles with contrasting politics until a run-in with Homeland Security brings Miss Skulkington's libertarian impulses to the fore: "Skulk" is won over to Gronsky's causes - secession of the Free State of Kansas, and 9/11 Truth.
So begins the couple's mad attempt to stage an Event which will awaken the Sunflower State to the Issues of the Day. Stirred by letters from John Brown's grave, they take flying lessons, and steal a Cessna to crash into Wichita's highest building. The listener is treated to a sophisticated parody of American political reality, a wild ride full of ironic twists and a stunning ending. In the Afterword, Estrin discusses his strategy in Skulk: to use comic fiction to probe dangerous real-world fictions parading as truth.
Critic Reviews:
"Marc Estrin has his finger on the pulse of American madnesses. Contemplating 9/11 conspiracies would be no laughing matter except in the hands of a writer who once (Insect Dreams) resurrected and apotheosized Gregor Samsa's discarded insect carcass. Now in Skulk, this master satririst raises questions of our national (ir)realities to breathless heights. As they used to say, "Right on!" (Peter Glassgold, author of Angel Max, Anarchy!)
Members Reviews:
Truth through Fiction
Marc Estrin's Skulk is like a crossword puzzle, a clever array of words and images skillfully woven into a story. Skulk may be fiction, but it speaks more truth than the 9/11 Commission Report.
Skulk
Marc Estrin's Skulk is a darkly entertaining comedy of misguided if well-intentioned political fumbling. Its unlikely pair of protagonists, coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum, hatch a scheme to make a complacent America ask, "Who really bombed the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?" But wait, wasn't the question of 9/11 answered in 2004 by a the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, otherwise known as the 9/11 Commission? Didn't they analyze 2.5 million pages of documents and interview 1,200 people to conclude that a global conspiracy operating under the name "Al Qaeda" orchestrated the attacks, helped along by U.S. intelligence failures? Why would Estrin push against this juggernaut of political analysis when expert scrutiny and our own eyes--via images of the day from the broadcast networks--have established the contours of this rubble-strewn landscape? And isn't a novel a rather lightweight vehicle with which to plow back the weight of settled history? Estrin's project is ambitious.
Estrin's characters and the America in which they dwell--represented here by the flat expanse of Kansas--exist in a post-9/11 world which is reminiscent of Frank Baum's Oz. Power is hidden and people generally feel unqualified to challenge it. Estrin's protagonists, like Dorothy and her friends, set out on a journey to change all this by hauling back the curtain of illusion so that the public can see the wires of stagecraft shaping their perception of the world. American democracy is depicted as a theater, its audience spell-bound into passivity.