To Be The Man

An Interlude in the Legend of Gentleman Jesse Garrett, Concerning a Foreigner of Uncertain Origin, a Villain of Certain Cutlery, and the Regrettable Invention of Medicated Shampoo

von Hubbard Sellers

136 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Set against the historical backdrop of 1882-spanning the Pearl Street generating station, San Francisco press wars, and federal immigration acts- To Be the Man weaves together three concurrent story lines: The Pursuit: Following mistaken reports of his death, refined detective Gentleman Jesse Garrett receives an extraordinarily written, atrociously spelled challenge. Refusing to let a pursuer's posture ruin the line of his coat, Jesse tracks his challenger across North America alongside his remarkably opinionated horse, The Earl of Sandwich.

The Challenger: "The Man"-an enormous foreigner who learned English from a waterlogged King James Bible, theatrical broadsides, and a penny dreadful-operates under a single, relentless doctrine: To be the man, thou must beateth the man. He wanders from town to town defeating local champions, leaving behind Jacobean syntax, confused bartenders, and a heavy drift of scalp flakes.The Flakes: In Cincinnati, Miss Ottilie Brandt-a self-taught chemist relegated to counting tallow barrels-discovers that scalp flaking is caused by a living organism. After being betrayed by a traveling huckster, she takes an unpaid position recording chronometer data for the Transit of Venus, bringing her formula to an isolated hilltop observatory.The three threads converge on a freezing December night in Pennsylvania. While astronomers point their telescopes at the sky, Jesse presents The Man with the only response his endless machine of combat cannot survive: the total refusal of the title itself.

• ISBN: 9798193708957
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp