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The Caveman's Valentine

There has never been a character quite like Romulus Ledbetter, the unlikely hero of George Dawes Green's acclaimed debut novel, The Caveman's Valentine.

Once a devoted family man and a Julliard-trained musician with a brilliant future, Rom now makes his home in a cave in New York City's Inwood Park, spending his days foraging for food and waging a one-man war against Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant, the evil (and imaginary) powerbroker responsible for every one of society's ills. Then, one wintry night, Rom finds a corpse at the mouth of his cave. Propelled by his well-defined sense of ethics, he sets off on an obsessive quest for answers, following a spiraling web of clues and hunches, straight into the sinister den of temptation, money, and murder... a place otherwise known as the "civilized" world.

"Amplitude, great vocal agility, profound subject matter, wit, and that gruff, riskful way with language... George Dawes Green has a great feel for what the American novel should be and he isn't intimidated by it."
KEITH MANO, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Masterly.... [An] absorbing whodunit plot which he pursues with compelling narrative skill and a poet's gift for language.... Romulus Ledbetter becomes an ideal, versatile, and even indelible vehicle for capturing the alienation of our time."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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Title of ebook: The Caveman's Valentine
ISBN: 9780759542099
parent-ISBN: 9780446517225
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 06-2001
Released online for download: 08-23-2002
Author of eBook: Green, George Dawes

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Excerpt

Y-RAYS

You figure now you got me in your clutches, you going to read me, like a book, right? — going to look right into my brain and you going to read it page by page, like I was some cheap-jack midnight entertainment to make you forget the mess you're in — right? Get you chuckling, get your greasy thumbprints all over my thoughts, get you through another miserable lonely night, right, Stuyvesant?"

"Who's Stuyvesant?"

"You're Stuyvesant."

"I'm not Stuyvesant."

"No, you're a zit on Stuyvesant's ass. But you're Stuyvesant just the same. You're all Stuyvesant."

"I just want to take you to the shelter, Mr. Ledbetter."

"But watch out when you're in my skull, because I got legions of angels in there, and they're going to beat the shit out of you with their little wings, and pick your limbs apart and spin you around and slide you on out of there. Oh, I'm going to crap you out and be free of you. You hear me? I'M GOING TO CRAP YOU OUT, STUYVESANT!"

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