The Marvelous Saga of the MERCANARY™: A Sells-Word's Story
About this eBook
Enter: the MERCANARY™.
This is The Marvelous Saga of the MERCANARY™. It's also the tale of Harry's nightmarish misadventures.
Problematic Press is proud to present to you this gonzo picaresque novel... or something.
Is there ever any solace?
This is it.
This is lit!
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Somewhere between Holden Caulfield, Ignatius J. Reilly, and BoJack Horseman, you'll find Harrison Stockton Bueller playing with his G.I. Joes.
MERCANARY™, a sells-word inspired by a typo, is a metafictional hero who's been drafted for lit's sake on land, sea, and air. His mission? Word.
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In the words of the author: "This is a gonzo picaresque novel. It's a work of intermedial metafiction. It's a cautionary tale. It's a sob story. It's a farcical melodrama. It is high art. It adapts a 'zine of poetry and adventure. It adapts a memeoem, which is literally a new poetic art form that I invented for this. It is the culmination of my life's work in literature. It's ballsy and hubristic and vulnerable all at once. The protagonist is an anti-hero. The sidekick is really something else. The odds are against them, but they're in this to win it. Together, they make things weird. Well, this thing is certainly weird."
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David Reynolds hasn't won any awards for his creative writing, but his most shocking anecdote has won him more beer than he could possibly ever drink. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, where he teaches English at Atlantic Canada's largest university.
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About the author
David Reynolds' passion for language and literature is undeniable. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old, and he’s been engrossed in the minutiae and nuances of the English language in one way or another ever since.
He holds a BA (English & philosophy) and an MPhil (humanities) from Memorial University, where he was fortunate enough to study superhero narratives in a broad context.
Besides teaching English at Atlantic Canada's largest university, he writes, edits, performs, and publishes a broad range of literature, primarily through Problematic Press, which he founded as a side project in 2013.
In 2021, Reynolds published his debut novel -- The Marvelous Saga of the MERCANARY™ -- the gonzo result of a lockdown art project.
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