Bøker av August Franza

BUGHOUSE AND OTHER LUNACIES are plays designed for laughter and other emotions. Author info: see augustfranza.com

BLOCKHEAD is made up of stories, poems, essays, nudgies, and brickbats.

THREE WOMEN is about Eleanor, Helen, and Rana-- their ambitions, their indignities, and their fates.

By chance, Sieglinde and Evelyne have fallen deeply in love under extraordinary personal circumstances. As a devoted couple, they set out to live their love fully; it grows and prospers until.... Brenner, a famous, popular performer and satirist who mocks everyone, is suddenly arrested and exiled permanently. He is being taken to live on a rock called Clingstone. The new leader of the City has decided to improve the moral tone that people like Brenner have destroyed. HE, the new leader, is exiling writers, artists, poets, and actors because they are responsible for the City's corruption. On Clingstone, isolation is a ghastly ordeal for Brenner which he desperately tries to adjust to until

Writing Myself to Death is a novel about the inscrutable lives, existential uncertainties, loves, hates, idiocies, and masquerades of Max, A., and Mr. Kiss. Here''s another way of putting it: Max and Mr. Kiss are telling stories and tales about reconnaissance, mangoes, griefs, balloons, and A. Then again, they may be lying.

A Family Failure is a novel about Hank Drummer, who spends his short life trying to overcome the pressures and demands of a powerful, aggressive, and tyrannical father. Because he can't live up to expectations, Hank has turned to drinking for relief. As the novel opens, we find him in the Purple Mist as he reviews the efforts he has made throughout his life to find relief and freedom from a dominating father.