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"Naked Into the Night"
by Monty Joynes
In the first novel in the
Booker Series, published in 1997, a successful Anglo
businessman with grown children walks out of his affluent
lifestyle late one night totally naked in a desperate
attempt to remake himself as a human being. His adventure
takes him cross-country from truck stop to truck stop as a
moving van helper to Santa Fe, where he finds shelter and
peace among a small tribe of Pueblo Indians. Adopted into
the tribe as “Anglo Who Became Chief Old Woman’s Son,” he
must then return to the family chaos he left behind in
Norfolk to free himself of his past.
This novel helped to create a new literary genre, visionary
fiction, and it is considered a classic with appeal to
everyone on the journey of self-discovery. The odyssey of
the story engages all family members, male and female,
across three generations, and is both poignant and humorous.
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"Lost in Las Vegas"
by Monty Joynes
In the second novel in the
Booker Series, published in 1998, the character lost in Las
Vegas is a remarkable young Pueblo man, a spiritual prodigy
and National Champion Fancy Dancer, who has been corrupted
by the glamour of show business. His tribal elders call upon
their spiritual brother, an Anglo man who was the principal
character in NAKED INTO THE NIGHT, to go to Las Vegas in an
attempt to restore the young potential leader to his tribe.
The mission seems impossible given the mistrust Indians hold
for Anglo do-gooders and wannabes. Anglo must face the
animosity of Dancer and the proprietary interests of the two
Folies Bergiere showgirls who manipulate him. In the
process, both Indian and Anglo must sort out their
destinies, which requires that they risk life itself in the
Valley of Fire.
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"Save the Good Seed"
by Monty Joynes
In the third
novel in the Booker Series, published in 1999, a Pueblo baby
is adopted and raised in the Anglo world. In middle age, he
discovers his ancestry and attempts to reconnect with his
tribe. Booker, an Anglo honored by tribal traditionals,
plays an important role in restoring the confused man to his
culture. Based on thousands of cases of controversial
Indian adoptions circa 1945-1976, this book documents the
experience and psychology of cultural loss. The narrative
provides a vivid literary vision of the stolen birthright of
a Native American and his journey to reclaim it. In
parallel plots, Booker is visited by his estranged son and
daughter, and the Vegas showgirls, Sue and Debbie, become
residents of Santa Fe and develop a dancing school with
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"Dead Water Rites"
by Monty Joynes
In the fourth novel in the
Booker Series, published in 2000, a tribal elder of the
Pueblo Nation is warned in a vision that the water, their
precious life source, is dying. Booker, an honored anglo
friend of the elders, seeks a solution to the potential
crisis of the tribal council selling its water rights to
developers. Praised by Indian leaders and environmentalists,
and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by its publisher, this
book deals with the metaphysics of water as much as it
addresses the historic use issues. Author and critic George
Garrett called it “a sustained poetic meditation on the
power and glory of water in the world.” The highly
researched nature of this book makes it appropriate for
group discussion and classroom use. All of the featured
characters in the previous three novels reappear in the plot
development of this volume. Plus Booker falls in love!
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"Grid"
by Monty
Joynes
The scene is New
Orleans, one of 16 Open Cities in the year 2032. The
United States, victim of economic depression, The
Great California Earthquake, food riots and anarchy
has a new constitution administered by 30 SIG’s
(Special Interest Groups) who have divided the
production centers of the country.
Desiree Bazile is the tempestuous Publicity and
Promotions Director of the New Orleans Grid, a
pari-mutuel game played on a 15-story tower inside
the refurbished Louisiana Superdome. Amateur and
professional games are played in which participants
climb the tower to retrieve a leather purse worth as
much as half a million barter dollars. The combat
for the prize is vicious.
Desiree is an
enigmatic beauty whose fashion extravagances make
her one of the most recognized figures in a city of
legendary excess. Her life is altered when The Pro,
a Grid handicapper and dean of New Orleans gamblers,
asks her to meet The Pirate, a seasonal street
performer in the French Quarter, who wants to be a
Grid player. Scott Hartley, musician, horse breeder,
and homesteader in a Zone of Disinterest, needs the
Grid purse to finance his growing community.
Although Scott and Desiree are both children of the
revolution and approaching age 40 with unsatisfied
needs for relationship, their initial attraction
turns to deadly conflict. Only The Pro,
understanding their mutual qualities, can bring them
together.
The action of the novel is played out against the
color and traditions of New Orleans and the unique
characters who inhabit the world of the Grid. The
larger fate of the United States and its
institutions, however, impinge on the struggle of
the characters. For here in the new age, the United
States has found a way to solve its social and
economic problems although it is no longer a major
player on the world stage. The solutions, the
author’s serious futuristic projections of what our
society may become, are both innovative and destined
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"Flesh"
by
monty joynes
There is a
contemporary secret society worldwide that believes
that eating human flesh has tremendous health
benefits and that it is the key to evolutionary
survival. The focus is on the Norfolk, Virginia
Chapter of the Roberto Society where a
third-generation funeral home operator supplies
resource for the taboo practice.
The activities of these serious flesh eaters has a
chilling quality of verisimilitude. The main
characters include a medical doctor and his family,
a U.S. Senator, and a German professor who has
solved the riddle of the missing link and is feeding
human brain to gorillas in an effort to make them
speak.
When the Society is threatened with media exposure,
and the public hysteria and revulsion that must
follow, the life of every Society member is
dramatically affected.
FLESH challenges all preconceptions about
cannibalism in this allegorical science-fiction
horror adventure of the mind and the stomach. Read
at your own gut-wrenching risk!
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