An American odyssey in miniature, Pike and Bloom maps the trajectories of three characters--Pike, Bloom, and Clytie--as they spiral through "the serious blues of Indianapolis," attempting to construct meaning from the absurd. Pike, a paranoiac everyman, lays confined in a hospital bed, convinced that the medical staff conspire against him. He flees into the city streets to seek the root of the plot, certain that he is followed. Meanwhile,...