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“Harold Hardscrabble, by G. D. Dess, is a sympathetic novel filled with philosophical musings on the state of society and our place within it.” (Foreward Clarion Reviews) The story captures the feelings of frustration and helplessness that many people experience in their daily lives. These sentiments are embodied in the contemplative, quietly charming protagonist, Harold, who, like Walter Mitty, lives largely in his own world of thoughts and dreams. Readers follow Harold’s transformation from a dreamer to a man of action as he struggles to discover how to live a meaningful life in a materialistic world.
Harold copes admirably with the many disasters and injustices that assail him on his life’s journey; but when he is finally overcome by circumstances beyond his control, he is forced to take matters into his own hands to attain justice for the all the misfortunes he has been made to suffer. This is a story of a quest for self-realization that unfolds slowly as it builds to its explosive climax.
“The novel recounts the journey of its ordinary, quietly charming protagonist whose search for self-realization goes extraordinarily wrong. To me, Harold is today’s American tragedy. I think, as one reviewer on Amazon put it, Gen Xers and above, and especially baby-boomers will relate to it.” – G.D. Dess
“Harold Hardscrabble is an excellent, philosophical tale that explores the life of a brilliant, troubled man and his ups and downs. The existential crises that haunt the titular character make him sympathetic and worth rooting for. The story bobs and weaves but never fails to hold the attention of the reader. A fine read” says Philip Zozzaro, Manhattan Book Review. Full review can be read HERE
“G.D Dess has written a novel that may touch many people. Harold is an every man in the realm of Walter Mitty, yet updated for our modern society” said City Book Review publisher, Heidi K. Rojek.
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G.D. Dess is the author of His Vision of Her, first published by Harper & Row, soon to be republished by Lone Wolf Books. He has also written two screenplays: an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victory, and an adaptation JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Additional fiction includes This Life Now (unpublished), Decade (manuscript lost) and a memoir, My Life as a Manifesto: The Adventures of a Bourgeois Baby Boomer. His critical work and essays can be found in the Los Angles Review of Books. For more information visit his website – http://www.desswrites.com
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Release ID: 181449