Infinite Absence, Volume I

By Ronald Ribman

THIS IS VOLUME I OF A TWO-VOLUME SET. A novel by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Ronald Ribman.The year has gotten off to a bad start for Peabody, scion of Peabody Industries, the largest mining conglomerate in the world. Somebody at the annual board of directors meeting, which he chairs, has written down the word, "Asshole," on his yellow pad in response to Peabody's analysis of world affairs; Peabody's mistress, a Spanish lady of dubious background, bearing more than a faint resemblance to Dorothy Lamour and Hedy Lamarr, has been wooed away from her pimp by Peabody and unexpectedly fallen in love with him; while his brother, Hector, the one person in the world who has always loved and supported him, his "Man in South America," has been returned to him by unknown kidnappers, a ten-thousand dollar bill stuffed in his mouth and his severed head floating in the golden honey of a Peruvian Spirit Pot. Seeking to flee the impending G tterd mmerung he senses closing in on him, Peabody befriends a young Orson Welles and flees to California to try and close a business deal with Walt Disney, only to bite into a red candy apple handed him by an actress dressed as a witch at a party celebrating the premiere of Snow White, which sends him into a near-death coma requiring medical care.What is wrong with Peabody stretches back forty years and over five continents, from the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America to the Bosporus pouring into the Black Sea on the shores of Asia, in a richly detailed poetic mosaic, a magisterial comic tale of love and lust, magical mystery and murder, where the protagonist's only hope for redemption comes from a God he calls, "Dreamfucker."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990697304
• ISBN13: 9780990697305
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ronald Ribman Book
• Length: 654 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"