Man Alone - by Jack Remick (Paperback)

About the Book

Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world.

Book Synopsis

Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world. His life ruined after a chain of disappointments and falls-the fruits of his violent nature-Zene runs into Karizma, a love-creature from his past, and he's smitten again, knowing all the while that for him, there's no future in love. Not your basic romance, for sure.

Review Quotes

From its opening scene on a bar stool, to Zene's denouement, walking into the tunnel of darkness, the novel beguiles the reader with images that arrest, unmask, and reflect Everyman's fated existential dialogue with self.

-Dennis Must, author of MacLeish Sq. et al

Jack Remick has invented a new genre-Pulp Literature. In Man Alone, Remick delivers lines with the deadpan of a pulp detective on the crime-trail . . . Remick builds on a theory of masks and unmasking, and, in the stunningly poetic images that run in Zene's observations, you see a writer as observer whose characters have depth as well as a fatal blind spot. In Man Alone Remick has come into some kind of new literary superpower.

-Christine Runyon, poet

Man Alone is a story that must be experienced . . . the story is wonderfully original, with characters who are exquisite in their flaws .

-Theresa Cogdill, artist

Man Alone is . . . rich in character, plot, and language. Remick's characters are twisted, murderous, real-and above all, riveting.

-Jack Smith, author of Being and Run

Jack Remick's Man Alone, the dark story of a defeated man sliding into reckless hopelessness, packs a spare, yet intimate gut punch with unforgettable characters and an impeccable sense of place. Remick is a masterful storyteller. He is that good.

-Eleanor Parker Sapia

Man Alone is Jack Remick at his best . . . Every word and sentence are sharp with the right kind of hurt . . . Man Alone draws you in as you wait for the inevitable boy saves girl story. But the outcome will surprise you.

-Tony Ollivier, author of The Amsterdam Deception and The Tokyo Diversion

In Man Alone, Remick's doesn't just tell you a story . . . he makes you experience it . . . observe it, feel the pain, the hurt, the ecstasy, the joy, the sadness of the cast of broken toys, that live in his story . . . This is a book that demands you sit up and pay attention . . . My advice . . . Buy a ticket; you're going to enjoy the ride. 5 Stars!

-Wally Lane, Screenwriting to Industry Standard

Jack Remick explores the lonely, often violent experiences of a straight man in a cold world. Man Alone is a brutal look at what some men are willing to do in their search for connection and intimacy.

-Elena Hartwell, novelist, One Dead Two to Go; Three Strikes You're Dead

Man Alone is dark, funny, vivid, and fast. The people are desperate and they are sexy and they are dangerous. Man Alone is about love and beauty and evil. The prose glints and dazzles, page after page. It doesn't let up. It is brilliant. Read this book!

-Priscilla Long, author of Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

With Man Alone, Remick has created a striking study of primal man in the throes of desperation and loneliness. Every character is gravely flawed, yet manically interesting...[Remick's] use of smell as the leading sense potently grounds us in the primitive mind. Remick has gone rogue in this masterful tale of unanswered yearning. He has created a beautifully disturbing power struggle between man and woman that sears the memory.

-Nicole Disney, award-winning novelist, Dissonance in A Minor. Hers to Protect. The Clinch.