Brinkman is street-wise, moving with assurance down the meanstreets of the future, through an America where life in theslums is an unrelenting grind of parsimonious welfare andpetty thievery. He is determined to make a better life forhimself; Brinkman is a young man who will go far . . .Too far, in fact. Fleeing the police, he sneaks into anoff-limits complex seeking refuge and finds a secret enclaveof wealth and privilege hidden carefully from the world ofpoverty outside. And he finds Beth, a girl he once loved inthe slums . . . and who died there long before.
Possessed of this puzzlingùand dangerousùbit of information,Brinkman sets out to discover more, and gradually a lifebegins to piece itself together . . . Brinkman's own.
Ron Goulart's latest vision of America lives up to the reputation for zany,unforgettable novels that has won him the title of "the Woody Allen ofScience Fiction."