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The author believes the best way to do that is through characters who are as real as relatives and friends of readers, often odd but compelling people we all know.
No room for the hoity-toity.
Originally conceived in 1965 with the help of literary agent Perry Knowlton, the series hoped to show that well-written literary fiction does not have to be "highbrow"; it should embrace ideas about destiny in a storyline that holds the readers\' attention and occasionally prompts laughter.
As a series A PETER Kelton NOVEL began to emerge in print in 2005 after 40 years of incubation.
They are just as real as Studs Terkel\'s real folks in "The Great War." Instead of a war to bind them together, they share the odyssey of a fantasy.
They hope." In "Doctor Bob" Kelton\'s characters are marvelously extraordinary, eccentric and bizarre.
That\'s what writers do.
He hopes someone will read what he writes.
He\'s writing about what happened.
Next to the candle will be a lad with a notebook scribbling away with the last pencil on earth.
Survivors will make their way through the dark and find the light from a single candle.
It\'s on a beach probably Australia. except for one distant flicker of light. . .
We\'re talking Cormac McCarthy darkness, black on black.
The batteries will run down.
All these electronic gadgets that rely on electricity will go dark.
Then he toyed with the digital age itself: "Some nut will find a way to blow up the electric grid.
During his classic presentation at the 200 th anniversary writers\' conference of North American Review, the nation\'s oldest literary magazine, he poked fun at his own novels for their obscurity, implying clarity in the digital age demands simplicity.
No room for the hoity-toity.
As in all his novels the author remains steady in his belief that well-written literary fiction doesn\'t have to be "highbrow"; it has to embrace ideas about destiny in a storyline that holds the readers\' attention and occasionally prompts laughter.
Complete and unadulterated.
Bob indulged his adventurous life as best he could imagine it.
So, Dr.
He learns from the scientists he treats the Albert Einstein belief that imagination is the preview of life\'s coming attractions.
Robert Bennett pioneered the kind of treatments that put nutty astrophysicists back on track to explore the Universe, observe time run backwards to the exploding Hindenburg where the fallen zeppelin actually went unnoticed.
Along the way Dr.
His exploitations ranged from creating one of Florida\'s most pristine upscale treatment centers to dallying in West Coast neighborhoods named after Tarzan of the Apes.
Wrapped up in the mysteries of the Universe as a sort of security blanket, he wandered toward infinity and his mysterious destination, an awkward pioneer of self-discovery.
The true love he found demanded that he straighten up and fly right.
Then he scrubbed up to court female patients beyond all ethical boundaries.
He learned to listen to the downtrodden of Skid Row by indulging in the ubiquitous squalor of their misery.
Bob earns his keep by treating Addicted Clairvoyants who fear they\'ve lost their ability to reach souls in the hereafter - a rambunctious character\'s story told as literary fiction with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, according to critics.
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