Idiot Savant
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
Fall semester, 1969: a socially awkward student, Sylvian Matreya, returns to a small Midwestern university in order to continue his studies in physics. Despite his efforts to avoid student activism, he becomes a sought-after recruit by the Great Truth Cloud (a psychedelic hippie cult) and the People's Will (a violent band of revolutionaries). Both seek to indoctrinate him and bring him into their respective movements. But why? Why him? Up to this point in his life, Sylvian has been invisible. People call him an "idiot." After the revolutionary murder of a student, our "idiot" seems to drop through the floor of reality into a murky, fantastic world of wild plots and stranger people. And in so doing, Sylvian discovers his own surprising destiny.
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“Another great work by a powerful writer. Anthony Alioto captures and immerses the reader in several of the domains of the zeitgeist of the late 1960s and the timeless philosophic and metaphysical currents brought to the fore during that era. Alioto's characters are fully developed and engaging. Alioto captures the darker spirit of the various resistant paths prominent during the tumultuous times. Alioto is a gifted, insightful writer who continues to draw his readers into vivid worlds with characters which invariably force us to ask and answer questions about ourselves. This work reflects the maturation of a master writer.”
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