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Morris, Alive

by Joel Bowman

An outsider’s journey through America

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An outsider’s journey through America

Morris arrives at JFK from a distant coastal hometown on the eve of a new century, carrying the outlook of a wanderer, dreamer and barroom philosopher. His attempt to understand the “Idea of America” also becomes a search for his own place in a country he experiences as unfamiliar and in motion. Framed as an adventure across America, past and future, the novel uses an outsider’s perspective to explore belonging, freedom and opportunity. Morris’s journey connects the scale of a new country with the personal question of how to find one’s bearings within it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction centered on an outsider’s view of America.
  • Readers drawn to journeys that explore belonging and personal identity.
  • Readers interested in fiction engaging with ideas of freedom and opportunity.

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Outsider perspectiveBelonging and identityAmerica, freedom and opportunityJourney and discovery

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Book overview

A new work of literary fiction for a new American era; one that celebrates life, freedom and opportunity for all.

 

Morris is a wanderer, a dreamer, a barroom philosopher and an incurable - some would say insufferable - romantic. By the time he arrives in a trance at JFK International, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, he is also nine and a half thousand miles from his tiny coastal hometown on the other side of the planet.

 

Unmoored in a bold new country, which is hurtling through time at a blistering, maniacal pace, and set wide-eyed among its strange and wonderful citizens, Morris at first struggles to understand the 'Idea of America' and, by extension, his own place within it.

 

So begins a classic adventure tale, one spiriting readers across America, past and future, as told through the uniquely observant eyes of an outsider looking in.

 

 

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