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Author Bauman, Bruce.

Title Broken sleep : an American dream / Bruce Bauman.

Publication Info. New York : Other Press, [2015]

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION BAUMAN    Check Shelf
Description 642 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Spanning 1940s to 2020s America, a Pynchon-esque saga about rock music, art, politics, and the elusive nature of love. Meet everyman Moses Teumer, whose recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia has sent him in search of a donor. When he discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother, he must hunt down his birth parents and unspool the intertwined destinies of the Teumer and Savant families. Salome Savant, Moses's birth mother, is an avant-garde artist who has spent her life in and out of a mental health facility. Her son and Moses's half-brother, Alchemy Savant, the mercurial front man of the world-renowned rock band The Insatiables, abandons music to launch a political campaign to revolutionize 2020s America. And then there's Ambitious Mindswallow, aka Ricky McFinn, who journeys from juvenile delinquency in Queens to being The Insatiables' bassist and Alchemy's Sancho Panza. Bauman skillfully weaves the threads that intertwine these characters and the histories that divide them, creating a postmodern vision of America that is at once sweeping, irreverent, and heartbreaking"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Families -- United States -- Fiction.
Rock music -- Fiction.
FICTION / Sagas.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Jewish.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Rock music. (OCoLC)fst01099204
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Epic fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781590514481 (paperback)
1590514483 (paperback)
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