Dream Science
by
Why does Rocker Poole, a nondescript businessman living in Connecticut, find himself confined for months in a small windowless office he has never seen before? What is the meaning of his abrupt departures into foreign places clearly different from our world? Is he going mad? Is he being transported to parallel universes where he becomes trapped?
Such are the questions that underlie Thomas Palmer's profoundly original and provocative novel. In tantalizing, unsettling fashion, Dream Science plays with some of our most crucial polarities — reason and madness, self and surroundings, life and death. As the story builds toward its dramatic climax. we, like Rocker Poole, are forced to recognize that the world we know is a strangely ambiguous, only deceptively familiar, uncannily shifting place, ready to plunge us at any moment into the totally alien.
Dream Science confirms Thomas Palmer's remarkable powers of invention. narration, and insight, and establishes him as one of the most original novelists writing today.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Thomas Palmer lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter. His first novel, The Transfer (1983), was greeted with exceptional acclaim. Mr. Palmer is now at work on his third novel.
Such are the questions that underlie Thomas Palmer's profoundly original and provocative novel. In tantalizing, unsettling fashion, Dream Science plays with some of our most crucial polarities — reason and madness, self and surroundings, life and death. As the story builds toward its dramatic climax. we, like Rocker Poole, are forced to recognize that the world we know is a strangely ambiguous, only deceptively familiar, uncannily shifting place, ready to plunge us at any moment into the totally alien.
Dream Science confirms Thomas Palmer's remarkable powers of invention. narration, and insight, and establishes him as one of the most original novelists writing today.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Thomas Palmer lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter. His first novel, The Transfer (1983), was greeted with exceptional acclaim. Mr. Palmer is now at work on his third novel.