The novel, ranked 13th on Larry McCaffery’s famous list of “The 100 Best English-Language Books of the 20th Century,” was first published in 1994 - during the era of the second wave of “youth rebellion,” counterculture and the struggle of the next generation of young men who rejected their parents’ way of life and girls for the right to live, think and feel in a new way. A kaleidoscopic novel in which a man, who once rejected his wealthy, prestigious and spiritually wretched little world, as if copied from a picture in an advertising catalogue, embarks on an aimless, meaningless and free wandering across America - across a country of overworked yuppies and their bored wives, prostitutes and pimps, aging and stale rock stars and hitchhikers, philosophical truck drivers and serial killers, amnesiac aliens and tired police officers. In America, in which fantasy and reality are intertwined so tightly that it is no longer possible to separate them.