Morris, Alive

The Great American Novel has been written? but not from the perspective of a non-American ingrate. Not yet, anyway. So thinks Morris, a wayfaring expat who, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, follows his heart across the Atlantic to American shores. There he falls in and out of love with a captivating woman, a strange and wondrous country and, transcending them both, a brave idea whose time has finally come. If only Morris can get his mind together, get his drinking under control, get a grip on his past and a handle on his future, he could finally turn all this into his grand literary masterpiece. If only?On an epic adventure that spirits him from coast to coast, through the mean streets of America's rustbelt cities and across her open plains, over the Prairies and beyond the Rockies, Morris discovers the "Idea of America" and, within it, the hopeful future that lies ahead for them both.Morris, Alive is a novel straddling the line between literary and commercial fiction. Part Augie March, part Holden Caulfield, Morris is also an outsider looking in, embarked on a journey that affords the reader a fresh perspective on America's unfolding, 21st century narrative.