Red Ivy Afternoon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780977411054)

Red Ivy Afternoon is a novel of community and disenfranchisement, subversion and revolution in the digital age. The setting is a future we already know: good homes are unaffordable, good jobs are outsourced to other countries, and people anchor themselves to the glowing monitors in their homes to distract themselves. Julian Lightfall, a relatively successful Boston shipping secretary, lives his life from gadget to gadget and bar to bar in a haze of consumerism and boredom. He frequents the Portfolio lounge of the Ultimatum Hotel, playground of the rich and powerful, and throws his attention ineffectually at a sultry and disinterested regular named Christina. Another lone bachelor named Pyndan Calabas moves into the apartment next door. Calabas tells Julian he is a trauma surgeon and the two become friends. But, as Julian soon discovers, his new neighbor hides a secret that will change Julian's life, and the world, forever. Red Ivy Afternoon is a post-modern odyssey through a future that is already upon us.

Author: Mark R. Brand
ISBN-10: 0977411052
ISBN-13: 9780977411054
Publisher: Silverthought Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 164
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner