“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many
things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Think Kafka, Calvino, Rushdie, and Coehlo. Now add Richard Beeson and his debut novel, Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer. This fable in three parts is magic realism at its finest, a mythic tale that blends tongue-in-cheek humor with a serious exploration of our history, psychology, sexuality,
spirituality, and our place in the multiverse.
When an ancient Celtic god, Lugh of the Long Hand, decides to recapture his earthly power, he targets an unsuspecting New Yorker, Tony Fellows, as his contemporary messiah.
By infiltrating Tony’s dreams, orchestrating a series of personal crises, and steering him into a barrage of sexual
and spiritual awakenings, Lugh succeeds in disarming Tony’s once-solid grip on reality.
What follows is
a mesmerizing journey through past, present, future, and the cracks between time and space as Tony, the Wanton Dreamer, is
lured into Lugh’s world and finds himself living in a parallel universe inhabited by the ghosts of his ancestors and
the mythical creatures of the Collective Unconscious.
This rich fable, as sublime as it is metaphoric, is the masterwork of author Richard Beeson, who sets a bold
pace for the world he creates—a delicious world where killer whales morph into limo drivers and men fall in love with
the daughters of gods.
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