Meet Jeremy Bannister.
Pushcart Prize-winner Gary Reilly \'s latest offering is a Bannisterian bildungsroman executed in an intriguing economical format of precisely twenty-eight lines per chapter..
Thus thirty-year-old unpublished Jeremy arrives at the realization that he is destined to become fifty-year-old unpublished Jeremy if he doesn\'t stop straightening up his living room and finish writing at least one novel.
Adrift in a "coral reef" of failed writer friends, Jeremy\'s youthful trials are bookended by an acerbic but influential college roommate and an incredibly matter-of-fact girlfriend.
As an English major still hoping to emulate the obscure artistry of James Joyce, he clearly has no earthly notion of how to achieve his goal.
The singular ambition of Jeremy\'s life is to become a "big-shot" novelist.
His is a humble, simply told coming-of-age tale that spans the terribly serious and comically trivial decades of the Vietnam and disco eras, respectively.
Meet Jeremy Bannister
