Hebert, Ernest (Inscription by author), — Mad Boys.

Hanover,NH, University Press, (1993). 1st prntg. VG in VG DJ. Hebert writes in his inscription that "This is the one that practically killed my reputation - (I don't care) Ernie Hebert". A sardonic road story, a bold departure from his previous novels master fully blending gothic and picaresque elementents in a lively social commentary. His systopic view of contemporary American society in term of virtual reality multi-sensory, high resolution, computer generated simulations. Our video age fascination with the insubstntial and the ephemeral. He deftly skewers our image-obsessed culture in such dead-on inventions at the Third World Theater, a televised live-action war by Nielsen ratings, a pint sized Donald Trump with a vision of an America run by chldren instead of adults. Double identities and mirrow images where each character is as likely to be a holographic projection as a real person. (from the dust jacket).