Crucifixion Barbecue
Crucifixion Barbecue by Rich Heller, published by iUniverse on March 27, 2001, is a work of fiction that explores the complexities of life through the eyes of Ray, a young man grappling with his troubled past. With 448 pages, this edition delves into Ray’s experiences shaped by an absent father and a manic-depressive mother, leading him to question the value of life. As his friends disperse across the United States, Ray is left to confront feelings of despair and the notion that suicide may be his only escape.
Throughout his journey into the bottomlands of America, Ray encounters a tapestry of human emotions, from resilience to indifference. He observes the struggles and hopes of those around him, reflecting on the harsh realities of existence. As he seeks to reconnect with the joy he once found in friendship and love, he also faces the darker aspects of life, including self-absorption and failure. This narrative invites readers to ponder the motivations behind survival and the search for meaning amidst chaos.
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His childhood demolished by an absent father and a manic-depressive mother, Ray has known for a long time that life isn’t worth living. Only his close band of similarly ruined friends sustains him. But when they scatter to all ends of the U.S., he is again filled with the desperate notion that life is meaningless, cruel, and unusual, and that suicide is the only logical conclusion.
Determined to recover the joyful solace of his friends, Ray heads out into the bottomlands of America where the sediment of broken lives settles. Along the way, he observes the “dumb expectations, dumb anger, dumb resilience, and the dumb, unbearable hope” of citizens everywhere across “the enormous bulge of magnificent, deformed American land.”
Again finding love in the unloved and beauty where least expected, Ray thrives. But at the same time, he is confronted with indifference, self-absorption, sexual deviance, resignation, and failure. What part of cruel existence compels most of us to survive? Will Ray discover it?
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