For the “ambitious, adventurous, but irritable”
Year of the Fire Monkey
Nualláin House, Publishers is pleased to announce
the 2016 publication of
Ode To Sunset,
A Year In the Life of American Genius,
the print version of the long running online serial fiction
by Pat Nolan.

“. . .it is characteristic of American genius that the casual eye does not easily distinguish it from charlatanry.  Purity of intention lies at the center of American achievement.  Modern American writing is about honesty.  The American tradition is to offer discovery, not virtuoso performances.”
—Hugh Kenner

Scheduled for release in the fall, Ode To Sunset is a fiction about dying and death, about a poet who is not quite Charles Baudelaire, not quite Charles Bukowski, who looks like a well worn Alex Trebek but with the demeanor of a Mickey Rourke, and takes place mostly in a city not quite Frisco. It is satirical, playful, and inevitably deadly serious. Episodes from this raucous irreverent allegorical tale of a man and his muse are still available for viewing at odetosunset.com.

“A satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.” —Flann O’Brien

In the coming months leading up to the publication of Ode To Sunset, excerpts from the final section will be posted at regular intervals to build on the suspense to the outcome of a year in the life of an American genius, the conclusion of which will only be available in the print edition. 

 Caveat Lector!
This is not a roman à clef!
Ode To Sunset is primarily a work of the imagination, meaning lies and made-up stuff. No actual poets were named in the writing of this fiction with the exception of dead poets who serve as historical or literary markers as is often required of dead poets.

Read the third of a four part interview with the author at Interview with Pat Nolan, Part Three

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