The Kicker of St. John’s Wood
By Gary Wolf
“Controversially discussing gender, politics, and a new world order, ‘The Kicker of St. John’s Wood’ is quite the engaging novel.” — Midwest Book Review
“[Gary Wolf accomplishes] what the likes of Melville and Hawthorne have done: vividly show, through characterization and action, the distorting effects of doctrinal thinking and true-belief on individuals and on the society as a whole…Wolf restates the Jamesian, culturally conservative argument on the basis of the last fifty years of Western social history, and in clear terms using intelligently the devices of the popular genres.” — Thomas F. Bertonneau, professor of English, State University of New York
In this his fourth futuristic novel, Wolf once again updates Orwell for the era of political correctness. No aspect of our post-modern intellectual meltdown escapes his pen: multiculturalism, “Diversity,” affirmative action, feminism, and the victim industry are all subjected to the merciless satire they so justly deserve.
The Kicker of St. John’s Wood is a story of America in the year 2020: Fractured socially and politically, its enemies are gaining ground and its civil liberties are threatened like never before.
Jayesh Blackstone, a professional football player, finds himself at the focal point of an historic experiment: a woman is going to play in a football game, and it will happen in the Super Bowl. It turns out that this is just a foretaste of the metamorphosis that is taking shape. The very same event is the venue for an announcement by world leaders of a new order, one that defines humanity exclusively in terms of race and gender.
The new reality steadily encroaches on Blackstone’s world; he is compelled to choose his allies, declare his identity, and determine the price he is willing to pay to live the life of a free individual.
Embracing controversy from its very first pages, The Kicker of St. John’s Wood is a rampage through the pantheon of contemporary idols, and a literary journey into the American national psyche of the twenty-first century.
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