Down below, America.

Like Atocha, this is an Adam Gordon novel: Gordon is Lerner's alter ego, like Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman or Roberto Bolaño's Arturo Belano. The Topeka School also includes sections written from the point of view of Adam's parents, Jonathan and Jane. Via Adam, his own Kilgore Trout, Lerner has been the first, and in The Topeka School he makes a thrilling attempt to fuse both kinds into one. [Extracted from the article]

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