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| Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
| | David B. Lentz
| This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's "Odyssey" and the Irish saga of Joyce's "Ulysses" in a Father's Day in Boston after the Vietnam War in 1974. This new "Bostoniad" portrays the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. After Tim Finnegan's Irish wake Rudy and Penelope Bloom of Beacon Hill meet Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. "Bloomsday" narrates in a pixilistic style a chorus of New England voices blending to render new verses of the greatest epic of antiquity and the 20th century's most celebrated literary novel on the legendary wandering home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy. "Curious, appealing... picaresque and picturesque, 'Bloomsday' succeeds... The dialogue is masterful. It will have you smiling." --Woburn Times Chronicle "Challenges readers seeking a richer literary experience outside the mainstream." --Greenwich Post "His writing is... on a higher plane for a higher purpose." --Wilton Bulletin "Lentz especially like to explore how creative people survive in a large and often impersonal environment. What is the role of a talented individual, an artist for example, in a complex, vast society?" --New Canaan Advertiser "The retention of dignity is a recurring theme." --Lewisboro Ledger "His pixilism is a sort of 21st century, digital metaphor that has similarities to French Impressionist paintings. Each sentence represents an idea, image or treatment of the big picture." --Redding Pilot "Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven -- searching for the meaning of life." --Weston Forum "I'm recommending it to everyone in my 'Ulysses' class." -- Nancy Bischoff, bn.com "I'm sitting in my kitchen transfixed! It is hilarious... It's so good, I hate to have it end...Totally delicious." --Agnes Potter, bn.com
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