SEAN AKERMAN
Outposts
A young academic is commissioned to author the biography of a famous, reclusive writer named Nestor Dunn. His assignment takes him beyond the academy, deep into the city of New York and the mountains of western Maine. All the while, he becomes infatuated with Nestor's estranged, mysterious daughter, Emma. As the project progresses, the gulf between the narrator's realities and fictions grows wide. Finally, he retreats north, to his own place of birth, to investigate his subject more closely. And it is there, as his subject's life disintegrates around him, that the narrator finally finds his own way forward.
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“Outposts clearly demonstrates [Akerman's] genuine flair as a novelist for originality and an impressive ability to engage his readers' attention from beginning to end.” - The Midwest Book Review
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“Outposts clearly demonstrates [Akerman's] genuine flair as a novelist for originality and an impressive ability to engage his readers' attention from beginning to end.” - The Midwest Book Review
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Available here