Book Summary

An English teacher in a community college develops a friendship with a famous local novelist who is inexplicably eager to introduce him to his exotic theories of the creative act. Coincidentally, the same teacher befriends an indigent who is a favorite at the local library, and is involved in his own unique literary pursuits. And both he and the novelist prove to share a disconcerting similarity of ambitions. For the teacher has similar ambitions of his own. Enigmas proliferate, complexities ensue, and a grand mystery of a sort is afoot.