Cold Fusion, (Hardcover)

<b>An offbeat, funny and moving coming-of-age campus novel by a Yale professor and film actor (<i>One Battle After Another</i>, <i>Marty Supreme</i>) in the tradition of John Williams's <i>Stoner</i>, Michael Chabon's <i>Wonder Boys </i>and Elif Batuman's <i>The Idiot</i>. </b> <p>It's the start of another fall semester at a midwestern university in the 1990s. Arriving on the foliage-and-flannel-filled campus is an unusual, unnamed freshman. Grieving the recent death of his father, he lives in a hotel instead of a dorm, finds himself afflicted by a mysterious hallucinatory illness with an even stranger home remedy, and is tasked by his wealthy mother to track down the son of a family friend--a charismatic and elusive student rumored to be pursuing "cold fusion." </p><p> As his search leads him through dive bars, bus stations, abandoned churches and other bizarre locales, and he has increasingly disorienting encounters with a variety of eccentrics--including drug dealers and fringe intellectuals--his mental state deteriorates and the boundary between experience and delusion begins to dissolve. </p><p> <i>Cold Fusion</i> is a darkly funny fever dream--an absurdist yet poignant examination of the fragile narratives we construct to make sense of an inescapably chaotic world.</p>

• Cold Fusion, (Hardcover)
• Author: Paul Grimstad
• ISBN: 9781668251201
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-01-05
• Page Count: 160