First published 1991
Vietnam vet Eugene Debs Hartke is a jazz pianist, college professor, and self-proclaimed "prognosticator of the apocalypse." When his dire predictions start coming true on campus, Hartke's eccentric worldview collides with the mundane realities of academic life. As students and faculty grapple with the looming disaster, Hartke must confront his own troubled past and the personal cost of his unheeded warnings.
Genres: american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, academia, academic
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unreliable-narrator
336 pages · Paperback · Berkley