Dennis Vickers: 10 books

The novel’s subject, A. J. Bluehart, a lightning rod for bad luck on the day of his birth in 1920, lives with his mother in a Chicago whorehouse until his sixteenth birthday, when the women of the house decide on a special birthday gift only they can give. Bluehart moves on to a lifetime of peculiar...

There is a world behind the world we experience, behind the world science considers. This back-stage reality is responsible for much of what we encounter and for all of the meaning we discover. Perhaps Plato was right. Perhaps this world is more real than material reality. The truths there persist...

Affairs of the heart, murder, suicide, riot, gossip, politics, heroism, cowardice--Witless bubbles over with the passionate extremes of life. Two peoples settle in Britts Mill, a small town in Southern Wisconsin, in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first are fun loving, free-spirited people...

The conflict in Mikawadizi Storms arises when Grady Metals resolves to dig an open-pit mine in the idyllic forested hills that make up the ancestral homeland of La Roche Verde Indian nation. Many of the La Roche Verde oppose the mine and take a stand against it. Grady Metals prevails initially, and...

Sit back and enjoy the parade as words speak their own minds, express their souls, finally articulate the life blood flowing through their hearts. What? You didn’t know they had it in them? Listen in your own head. Aren’t fusty old words lurking there ready to step out of the wings and up to the...

The novel takes its title from an entry in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s notebook: “If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?” This theme,...

Three people; three predicaments; one solution. Telli Trujillo survives a horrifying bank robbery but is haunted by the experience. What does he need to prevail over his fears? Joy Juneau is a plucky thirty-year-old boss's concubine trapped in a rut of cynicism. What does she need to reconnect...

Cement magnate Luca D’Angelo stole corpses from the morgue and used them in a macabre ‘lost-wax’ process to cast statues to adorn his mansion’s grounds. Recoiling from the indignity, angry ghosts haunt the statues and make the park a dangerous place. They drive visitors insane, knock them...

Adam’s Apple is an eyebrow-raised look at sin and redemption in the postmodern world. Narrated by his press secretary in biography format, the plot carries Adam Ibsen from conception to election (the US House of Representatives--original to ultimate sin). He samples incest, patricide, lust, avarice,...

Literary Smut or Smutty Literature? Devin Post, principle character and narrator, is a twenty-something graduate student studying creative writing. As his story unfolds, suddenly, unexpectedly, up pops a steaming erotic episode with a Teutonic dominatrix who enjoys using her riding crop while...you...