I Disappeared Them: A Novel [Hardcover]

Preston L. Allen's Hunter is an Everyman Dexter, a pizza-delivery guy, seething at times, sadly longing at others. A complexing hybrid of nature and nurture, defying analysis, governed by principled passion. He'll crawl into your heart and chill you from the inside out. I love it. What if you're a good personkind, sensitive, funnybut evil won't let you be? Set in the urban landscape of South Florida,? Generations of illicit sex run through this clever and wide-ranging book in which the flesh always triumphs . . . Surely no one does church sexy like Allen . . . Allen's writing by turns is solemn and funny . . . It would be easy for Heartfelt and occasionally hilarious, Imaginative, versatile, and daring, Allen raids the realms of myth and fairy tales in this topsy-turvy speculative fable . . . With canny improvisations on 'Jack and the Beanstalk,' 'The Epic of Gilgamesh,' and As a cartographer of auto-degradation, Allen takes his place on a continuum that begins, perhaps, with Dostoyevsky's