Grand Illusion: A Novel
This is no illusion, my third novel is complete and ready to go after several edits, reviews, re-edits, re-writes and some additions, this is the most complete project I have done to date.
Here is the synopsis:
Here is the synopsis:
When Jeff Smith awakens in a Columbus, Ohio, hospital, he is
a man devoid of any memory. With no missing persons matching his description,
and no family to speak of, the man is forced to piece together a life he cannot
remember. He is haunted by dreams of a man who he thinks might be his own
undiscovered past. He chases the ghost from his dreams across the nation,
failing to find anything.
Grand Illusion is a thought provoking look at the
modern world through the lens of a post-modern alternate future. Following the
tale of one man through the lens of multiple potentialities, this third novel
by Scott Reed uses post-apocalyptic satire to address everything from
politics, to religion, pop culture, personal communications, and love.
Smith and his altar ego, David Cuddyback, traverse a
complicated dystopian world searching for truth, failing to find anything in a
dark world which is falling apart. Say goodbye to family and friends as the novel
captivates you with a story that weaves together masterfully. Set in a near
future, society decaying all around them, the alternate world of David
Cuddyback is explored through his own eyes as Reed introduces you to a variety
of characters with no interpersonal link, but linked at the hip by a future
none of them knows will lead them on a collision course of destiny.
Simultaneously set in Portland, Oregon, Cuddyback and his
girlfriend Livvy wander through a crumbling society in one moment, and a fascinating
array of potential parallel universes the next. The couple face many challenges
in the crumbling world, and their place in that world. The book is a complex
look at modern society through the eyes of parallel existence of one man, using
the subtext of his different possible choices as a backdrop.
All through the book lay clues to where Smith may have
started, the choices that seem to destroy his life. The story of Smith climaxes
with a view into the personal demons that lead him to that Columbus hospital.
In the end, there will be characters you love, characters who
guide you through the morass of this world with hope for a future left not so
bleak as the world inhabited by its characters. Reed uses hauntingly specific
details, a distorted view of the future, and magnificent prose to blend a book
of life and sadness. Weary is the man whose path is unknown for he must
travel in the darkness of life.

Email: sreed3939@gmail.com
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