The Conversations (New Directions Paperbook)

The Conversations (New Directions Paperbook)

<p><strong>A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist</strong></p> Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera’s goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men’s uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot ― involving a mutant strain of killer algae ― to take over the world! <em>The Conversations</em>, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching.