"Alec Carton, a fifty eight year old jazz musician whose wife has been killed by an angry investor in the office of a financial corporation leaves San Francisco for Brooklyn, his birthplace, when he reads a story in The Times about his cousin, Ben Gossett. Ben has been shot by the police after depositing the frozen body of his mother on the desk of the local Office Manager for Con-Ed, the municipal power company. Her power had been turned off for nonpayment. Alec feels that everything-his past, the rudiments of civil ...
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"Alec Carton, a fifty eight year old jazz musician whose wife has been killed by an angry investor in the office of a financial corporation leaves San Francisco for Brooklyn, his birthplace, when he reads a story in The Times about his cousin, Ben Gossett. Ben has been shot by the police after depositing the frozen body of his mother on the desk of the local Office Manager for Con-Ed, the municipal power company. Her power had been turned off for nonpayment. Alec feels that everything-his past, the rudiments of civil society, the country itself-have slipped or are slipping away and that he needs to make some sense of things, finally, and do something"--
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