The Appointment

Author:   Mike Maggio
Publisher:   Vine Leaves Press
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9781925417340


Pages:   90
Publication Date:   08 May 2017
Format:   Paperback
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When a terrifying gang goes on a rampage at a packed subway station, Professor Jeremy Withers is severely beaten and left for dead. When he regains consciousness, he continues his journey to campus, only to find his office empty: His life as an academic for 30 years has been completely erased. A surprise visit from two mysterious inspectors complicates matters further. Do they want information about his attack? Who are they working for? Where can he locate them? Soon Jeremy finds himself lost in a world that seems uncanny and unforgiving, searching for answers from people he cannot find.

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Author:   Mike Maggio
Publisher:   Vine Leaves Press
Imprint:   Vine Leaves Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.091kg
ISBN:  

9781925417340


ISBN 10:   1925417344
Pages:   90
Publication Date:   08 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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-Mike Maggio's The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio's anti-hero tries to seek some help--some human concern for his existential plight--but, like Kafka's K or Tolstoy's dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone.- JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW************-With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio's The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end.- MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND************-Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I've ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder.- SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA


Mike Maggio's The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio's anti-hero tries to seek some help--some human concern for his existential plight--but, like Kafka's K or Tolstoy's dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone. JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW************ With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio's The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end. MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND************ Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I've ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder. SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA -Mike Maggio's The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio's anti-hero tries to seek some help--some human concern for his existential plight--but, like Kafka's K or Tolstoy's dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone.- JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW************-With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio's The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end.- MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND************-Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I've ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder.- SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA


Mike Maggio's The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio's anti-hero tries to seek some help--some human concern for his existential plight--but, like Kafka's K or Tolstoy's dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone. JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW ************ With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio's The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end. MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND ************ Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I've ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder. SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA -Mike Maggio's The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio's anti-hero tries to seek some help--some human concern for his existential plight--but, like Kafka's K or Tolstoy's dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone.- JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW ************ -With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio's The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end.- MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND ************ -Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I've ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder.- SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA


Author Information

Mike Maggio has published fiction, poetry, travel and reviews in, The Montserrat Review, Pleiades, Apalachee Quarterly, The Northern Virginia Review, The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, Beltway Quarterly, Pig Iron, DC Poets Against the War, Washington Independent Review of Books and many others. He is an assistant adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College, an associate editor at Potomac Review, a graduate of George Mason University's MFA program in Creative Writing and the Northern Regional Vice-President of the Poetry Society of Virginia. His web site is: www.mikemaggio.net.

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