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"In its formal virtuosity, in its brilliant,
experimental systemization of plot and setting, in the deep seriousness
with which it lays out ideas of tragedy, gender, work, religion, desire,
moral responsibility ... Bayliss's tetralogy stands as a signal
accomplishment in American letters."
- Gary
Grieve-Carlson
"Jonathan Bayliss uses language in a way that makes our native
tongue come alive for us as though we were experiencing it for
the first time in all its freshness and hard-edge originality."
- Peter Anastas
"Gloucesterbook is a genuine achievement, a literary work of true
originality. The real hero here is Place."
- Gerrit Lansing
"The novels of Jonathan
Bayliss prove that Walt Whitman was right when he said that
scientists are the lawgivers of poets."
- Dave Rich
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GLOUCESTERMAN is fiction by Jonathan Bayliss. The four
related novels are headed by Prologos and include the
trilogy Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and
(in progress) Gloucestermas.
Two plays, The Tower of Gilgamesh (or the Iso-Recto-Tetrahedron)
and The Acts of Gilgamesh, are part of the novels. See
www.gilgameshplays.net
for the playscript versions.
The published novels are available at
Amazon and, though protected
by copyright, may be downloaded here for personal use by the
curious reader. The files are in PDF format.
Jonathan Bayliss lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Note on opening the files: Be
patient, since they are large: Prologos (133 mb, Gloucesterbook (72 mb), Gloucestertide (84 mb).
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"Jonathan Bayliss writes
uncompromisingly cerebral books, and their rewards for the
committed reader are many. This series is too important to
be neglected as difficult or academic. "
- Steve Farrell
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"... a
work that is elegant, historically rooted, careful in its articulations,
so well crafted, respectful and yet sometimes outrageously forthright,
deeply human behind the mode of its comic understatement."
- Peter DuBrul, S.J. |
"There's a vivacity, a profusion of intellect,
style, detail, an exuberance and plenitude that recall Melville's or, at
other moments, Whitman's."
- Stuart Miller
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