Two Novels In Minor Keys

About the Book

Goodbye Richard

As seen from the point of view of a higher than usual authority, Richard's life is a twice told tale signifying something.

Unlike XY who weaves what appear to be ideas with such stylistic interest that it is easy to think they have significance, Kaminski strips away the burden of style. If ever less was really more, it is here in these few pages. Unlike XX who ever provides not one but endless thousands of those trenchant, telling details, Kaminski is as sparing of your time as is a Republican tax plan of a millionaire's money. This is a novel for the busy e-mail generation. Fax it on.

People Wanting Children

A comic novel, which like most truly comic effects, has a more serious subtext that provides the bounce for pinball events. P.W.C. actually has two such levels:

Sex is the most comic animal behavior and humans have surpassed all other species in sheer silliness about it. Because nature drops a few bucks on our pleasure pillows when we perform, we are quick to mistake the performance for the purpose, which is to make babies.

People can be almost as misguided about making art as they can be about making babies. Again, they mistake the performance for the purpose, which is to evade madness.

Our heroes, Tom and June, want to make babies. Our author wants to make a novel. These characters together with this author make another of those odd couples that seem always to be misunderstanding each other. Without benefit of clergy but with the self conscious spiritual earnestness of their generation, Tom and June have chosen to make a marriage. The poor author is trapped in his struggle to make a big deal out of small errors. He talks of Sin and Tom and June can only wonder,  "What is he talking about?"

About the Author

Gerald Kaminski lives in California still too distant from the ocean he daily longs to see and hear. Goodbye Richard is his ninth novel. His previous novels, plus two volumes of poetry and two shorter fiction pieces are available from Cove View Press. Understanding that all artists are ambassadors from a better place, Kaminski has named himself the Ambassador to the United States from Romusa, a state equidistant from all the capitols of the world and perpetrated a piece of internet performance art that lives at http://members.home.net/geraldak. He may be reached at geraldak@home.com.