Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal

Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal - Paperback

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Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal - Paperback

Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal - Paperback

by Brian Kindall
$18.34
$18.34

Book Overview

He fantasizes about saving damsels in distress and battling beasts. He'd better be careful what he wishes for...

Will Kirby has hit his mid-life crisis at full speed. Once a rugged outdoorsman, he's now soft around the middle and trapped in the banality of minivans, suburbia, and his eight-year-old's dance recitals. But his constant daydreams of heroic adventure suddenly fall within his grasp when an old pulp author's journals reveal a portal to another world.

Immediately forced to rescue two gorgeous babes from attack by a Japanese Zero, Will lands ashore on an island paradise brimming with adrenaline-pumping action and consequence-free sex. But with danger around every turn and the faint call of his former life tugging at his mind, he wonders if his fantasy has turned into a deranged nightmare.

Can Will discover what it really means to be a man before he's forever lost to an illusion?

A postmodernist homage to the men's adventure fiction of the 1950s, Escape from Oblivia is a satirical exploration of male tropes - pre-feminist sexist hero, pants-wearing breadwinner, sensitive stay-at-home dad? Will decidedly falls short of any of these expectations.

If you like magical realism, absurdist fiction, and satirical stabs at tired tropes, then you'll love Brian Kindall's racy romp into freedom.


Buy Escape from Oblivia to strip down and dive in today!
ISBN9781736106815
Author Brian Kindall
PublisherDiving Boy Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages290
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Brian Kindall

Brian Kindall is the author of books for both adults and young readers. He believes that the best books are those joining the finest qualities of literature with large doses of adventure. To this end, he crafts his stories with vivid, evocative writing, peopling them with one-of-a-kind characters that will pleasantly haunt the reader well after the book is finished. He draws his inspiration from the classics and popular genres alike, and from the magic he senses lying beneath the surface of life. He does his best to tap this magic and mystery for his novels. In the years in which he was learning to write, Brian worked such adventurous jobs as whitewater raft guide, and as packer for a backcountry hunting camp - experiences which have worked their way into his books. When he's not busy at his desk, you can find him hiking and skiing in the mountains of Central Idaho where he lives with his wife and three kids on the shores of Payette Lake.

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