EMPIRE BURLESQUE
Book Description
Charles Talkoff's EMPIRE BURLESQUE is the inaugural novel in a projected trilogy — an existential detective story for a fractured America. Drawing the reader into a post-9/11 paranoid landscape where continuity has been shattered and meaning itself has become a fugitive, the novel channels the spirit of Burroughs and Pynchon through an unmistakably original voice. Information arrives without context. The plot doubles back, contradicts itself, dissolves. This is fiction as burlesque — a farcical, Faustian fog where Trumpian characters define reality and distort reason, and where the ancient archetype of Theseus confronting the Minotaur plays out in the labyrinths of the modern security state.
Wild, elusive, and uncompromisingly American, EMPIRE BURLESQUE maps a territory where man versus beast, citizen versus state, and liberty versus control collapse into a single, hallucinatory question: what does it mean to search for truth in an empire that has abandoned it? This is literary fiction that dares to sound the depths of a democracy in freefall — and somehow finds poetry in the wreckage.
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, Undergroundvoices, the Midway Journal, JMWW, and 3 Quarters, and by 8th House Publishing. Born in New York and residing in Baltimore, Talkoff brings a strong American paranoiac's voice to contemporary fiction — a sensibility attuned to the schisms and spectacles of empire.
Book Details
| ISBN: | 978-1-926716-42-8 |
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| Publisher: | 8th House Publishing |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction / Experimental Fiction / Political Satire |
| Format: | Paperback / eBook |
| Debut: | No |
