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Released Fall 2009
- Title: Anathema Rhodes: Dreams
- Author: Iimani David
- Publisher: The New York Literary Society
- Pub. Date: November 2009
- ISBN-13: 9780982349106, paperback - Library ed., $14.95
- ISBN-13: 9780982349120, Hardcover - Library ed., $27.99
- 304pp, Library ed. paperback (NYLSdirect)
- 265pp, Library ed. Hardcover (NYLSdirect)
2009 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Nominee in Literary Fiction
Synopsis
After a lifetime of self-medicating fails and life finally begins its tilt toward self-destruction, Jodi - a 25-year-old writer nursing the psychological lacerations of being a "rape-child" - meets, through dreams, a special five-year-old boy who shows him how the pair may move across parallel universes to fulfill their universal purpose. As they travel, they encounter creatures on different planes of consciousness that are responsible for specific social and moral ailments impacting and pressing mankind's evolution to ill-fated ends. In short time the boy makes an astounding revelation: that there exists, on separate universal planes, two omnipotent and infinite Gods - one created by the sheer force of mankind's collective beliefs; the other, the Source of all things. The man-made anomaly, the child asserts, must be destroyed. But, who or what is the child?
Anathema Rhodes: Dreams chronicles three days in the life of Jodi Rhodes, and the final days of humanity - as we know it.
Biography
Iimani David is an experimentalist in the literary impressionist style. He debuts in Anathema Rhodes: Dreams the literary techniques "maypoling" and "vertical storytelling" - techniques designed to enhance the surreality of his characters' mental and emotional experiences. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is the author of The Bastard and numerous short stories.