Emerging from the pages of Homer’s Odyssey and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The novel features Les Boom, a young man of the WWII generation. As a hormone driven teenager, Les fathers a bi-racial child with Lou, a colored woman near his age. Their son Teddy takes his name from Telemachus, child of Odysseus.
A novel that recasts, in 20th century Louisiana, not only Homer’s Odyssey but James Joyce’s Ulysses.
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Pistol Thicket is thrillingsuspenseful a must read
Pistol Thicket’s main character, Les Boom, a
tie-in with James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom,
follows Bloom through the imagined streets
of Dublin on June 16, 1904 (Bloomsday) as
Leopold Bloom traces the route of Odysseus
in his 10 year return from the Greek siege of
Troy. As it turns out, Les has no idea that he
trails either of these heros. His diploma from
Pistol High School gave him no inkling of this
link, but his drop into Normandy, June 6, 1944
with the 101st Airborne (pissing, puking,
praying American teenagers) leaves no
doubt of the connection.