Kirjahaku

Like most people his age, fifty-year-old Dr. Ben Rasmussen would like to be younger. Unlike most people, he might actually pull it off. He is the creator of Rejuven, the new drug from Kalimer Pharmaceuticals that promises to stop the aging clock and start it running backwards, rekindle the flame of sex, smooth skin, sooth joints, pump up muscles, regrow lustrous hair, and restore youthful vigor.Ben is on top of the world. But with great power comes great danger. His bosses want to parlay Rejuven into serious political power. His colleagues want to steal credit. His wife wants to be rich. All Ben wants is to be young again and to offer others the opportunity to reclaim their youth.Is that too much to ask?

In 1879 Mark Twain meets the young painter John Singer Sargent aboard a steamer from the Sandwich Islands to San Francisco. But it is not our San Francisco, our California, or our 1879. In this universe, everything south of the Russian River is an independent Spanish-speaking country called Alta California. Everything north of the river is Rossland, ruled by Imperial Russia. These powerful states are flush with Sierra gold, while the United States is just a weak neighbor on the other side of the Mississippi. Mark Twain is supplementing the meager royalties from Tom Sawyer by lecturing on "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands." John Singer Sargent tours with him, sketching and painting the sights and trying to get a portrait commission from Twain. Told in the first person voices of Twain and Sargent, illustrated with their sketches, paintings and photos, this is a tale about friendship, ideology, culture clash, and what it means to be an artist.

In 1879 Mark Twain meets the young painter John Singer Sargent aboard a steamer from the Sandwich Islands to San Francisco. But it is not our San Francisco, our California, or our 1879. In this universe, everything south of the Russian River is an independent Spanish-speaking country called Alta California. Everything north of the river is Rossland, ruled by Imperial Russia. These powerful states are flush with Sierra gold, while the United States is just a weak neighbor on the other side of the Mississippi. Mark Twain is supplementing the meager royalties from Tom Sawyer by lecturing on "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands." John Singer Sargent tours with him, sketching and painting the sights and trying to get a portrait commission from Twain. Told in the first person voices of Twain and Sargent, illustrated with their sketches, paintings and photos, this is a tale about friendship, ideology, culture clash, and what it means to be an artist.

Geoffrey Doover is chrononautical. He can navigate time and rewrite his life's narrative. He starts in a mental institution, half blind, scarred, hallucinating, unsure of what is real and what is not. Through the miracle of his own unique form of narrative therapy, he gradually does over, or doovers, the various traumatic moments of his life, learning to survive in his family of origin, mourn his mother's death, drive a car, talk to a girl, avoid the draft, and finally graduate college as a more-of-less functional, normal adult.But he doesn't do it like you or I would. His reality-bending talents take him on a wild romp through 50s, 60s, and 70s California culture.