Cpr for Dummies

An innovative story that challenges the traditional novel structure, CPR for Dummies cleverly weaves together dozens of extraordinary episodes populated by an abnormal assortment of unconventional inhabitants, e.g. a wannabe actress-turned-messiah, a homeless seer, a bodybuilding priest, a porn writer who seduces a grandmother, a church bell that hasn't rung since the U.S. dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima, and many more. These characters come to life against the belligerent backdrop of an impassioned anti-nukes rally?on the hottest day of the year (all as a monstrous meteor ominously approaches the earth?s atmosphere).This non-linear, offbeat tale is told through flashbacks, diary entries, first person interludes, and related vignettes that suddenly stray off to interject back-stories, underlying themes, and secondary segues to create context and flavor. CPR for Dummies is tough to describe because it is as much an "anti-novel" as novel. It deconstructs the form in the way Jackson Pollock shattered painterly illusions. To call it a novel is like using the word film to describe something Andy Warhol shot. CPR for Dummies is funny, challenging, quirky, political, perverted, and guaranteed to provoke a response.