Temporal

TEMPORAL: a Novel of Consciousness & Time is a post-modern literary comedic drama about the relationships between life and art, memory and dreams, and temporal as well as eternal concerns in the increasingly alienated (and alienating) 21st-century youth culture.

Suggested for readers who enjoy Haruki Murakami crossed with Chuck Palahniuk, David Chase, and Brian Greene or Michio Kaku with a touch of Sylvia Plath's "Johnny Panic" and Christopher Nolan's Memento.

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TEMPORAL: a Novel of Consciousness & Time is the debut novel of young independent film producer and screenwriter, Elijah Joon.

The novel explores the relationship between memory, experience, imagination, and dreams in the post-modern landscape of the mind in the midst of twenty-first century apathy and cynicism…

…where the inner reality of its main character feels truer than real life’s droning monotony…

…where art brings a sense of order to the unconnected loose threads binding unrelated events throughout real life.

Oh, and there’s this whole thing about the increasing plague of social apathy both on the Internet and in real-world social interactions.

OK, you know what? Let’s go all Martha Stewart on this Product Description and put it in cooking terms:

Recipe for TEMPORAL: a Novel

Add two cups of sardonically detached social commentary and pour in a can of literary kick-ass. Then stir in the following ingredients:

Hacked emails and prank phone calls to Suicide Hotlines.

A cast of disaffected youths retreating inward and to the internet from an uncaring world growing colder and crueler.

Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, and the Electric Light Orchestra.

No sex in the Waiting Room.

Catch-22 and a Colt .45

Voice boxes and physical beat-downs on public transportation.

Destroying Twilight novels in Borders Bookstores.

“Who the hell is Janet Maslin?”

No-frills packaging as “Super Retro-Cool”

Mental illness, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Class Reunions, a Soldier wounded in the field and losing his sanity as he submerges into a nightmarish coma, an escaped mental patient on the hunt for a man haunting his dreams

Lost love and a lost lover re-imagined, Paradise not found and restored, but reinterpreted.

Dan Brown being kicked upside the head.

All these and more as seen and interpreted through the mile-a-minute pop culture mind of a true 21ST Century Schizoid Man.

Presented as part of the ART HOUSE ESSENTIAL READING Series of outstanding contemporary literary works.