The Final Death of Rock-and-Roll

the final death of rock-and-roll And other stories

ISBN 9780988924840

A compilation of fantastical and surreal short stories of everyday life in a parallel universe that includes unemployed bears, marvelous melons, literate mice, alien museums, baffling televisions, talking dogs, and Jimi Hendrix.

The Final Death of Rock-and-Roll is one of eight noteworthy story collections showcased in Foreword Reviews magazine.

PRAISE FOR MASTER SIGER’S DREAM,
A NOVEL BY A.N. DEANNUNTIS

If you like your early modern philosophy mixed in with ribald sex, stirring adventure, and plenty of humor, then Master Siger’s Dream is the ticket for you. And what a trip that ticket buys Learned philosophical discussions about the nature of existence, the power of empiricism, the allure of mysticism, and the pleasures of the flesh are all to be found here. DeAnnuntis writes with verve, deep learning, and comedic panache. Once you settle into the postmodern blurring of timeframes, you will find yourself caught up in an improbable world that manages, somehow, to make perfect sense, more or less.
—George Cotkin, Professor of Postwar US Intellectual and Cultural History, California Polytechnic State university, author of Existential America

Reading A.W. DeAnnuntis’s debut novel Master Siger’s Dream put me in mind of the John Kennedy Toole masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces. The epigraph for that book—“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him”—could easily do service here . . . And while medieval philosophy abounds in both books, it was DeAnnuntis’s characterization of Siger of Brabant as an irreverent gadfly that really called to mind Ignatius Reilly . . . [We], from our privileged place in history, know just which way fortune spins for our genius and our dunces, [but] DeAnuntis has created such a wonderful character that we can’t help hoping Siger figures out a way to circumvent his fate, that somehow he finds his way to a better outcome.
—Devon Shepherd, mostlyfiction.com