THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER
Book Description
\"Come metropolis soldiers, where I am spread against the sky like a prisoner in your slinky cuffs of discipline…\"
In the secret womb, the special agents come and go, saying nothing. Charles Talkoff's THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER channels the ghost of Eliot through the surveillance state, transforming the longest-serving FBI director into a figure of mythic absurdity. Part prose poem, part fever dream, part political exorcism, this novel tunnels through the labyrinths of power, paranoia, and the American century with hallucinatory intensity.
Drawing on the Tarot, the Kabbalah, and the dark poetry of the national security state, Talkoff has created a work unlike anything else in contemporary fiction — a novel that reads like Prufrock rewritten by a defecting intelligence analyst in the grips of revelation.
Author Bio
CHARLES TALKOFF is an American author whose work fuses literary experimentation with political critique. His fiction has been published in Urbanite Baltimore Magazine and by 8th House Publishing. His 8th House titles include THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER and EMPIRE BURLESQUE.
Book Details
| ISBN: | 978-1-926716-10-7 |
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| Publisher: | 8th House Publishing |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction / Experimental Fiction / Political Satire |
| Format: | Paperback / eBook |
| Debut: | No |
