Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves, and Ali Baba's Treasure, Gretchen McCullough’s comedic epic

 

Confessions of a Knight Errant

Drifters, Thieves, and AliBaba's Treasure

 

Gretchen McCullough’s comedic epictakes the reader from the sands of Egypt to the western flair and heritage ofTexas!

 

Released by Cune Press

The book is available worldwide in both print and e-book formats

Confessions of a Knight Errant is a comedic, picaresque novel in thetradition of Don Quixote with a flamboyant cast of characters. Dr. Gary Watsonis the picaro, a radical environmentalist and wannabe novelist who has beenaccused of masterminding a computer hack that wiped out the files of a majorpublishing company. His Sancho Panza is Kharalombos, a fat, gluttonous Greekdancing teacher, who is wanted by the secret police for cavorting with thedaughter of the Big Man of Egypt. Self-preservation necessitates a hurriedjourney to the refuge of a girls’ camp in rural Texas. Then a body turns upnearby that is connected to Middle East antiquities, and they are on the runonce more.

 

Amazon.com: Confessions of a KnightErrant: Drifters, Thieves, and Ali Baba's Treasure: 9781951082444: McCullough,Gretchen: Books

 

 

What authors and reviewers aresaying!!!

Few literary works have dealt with the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 as well asthis novel did, whether in Arabic or English, by the American author, GretchenMcCullough. McCullough survived the events of the uprising at Tahrir Square—thenovel focuses on a group of expatriates who stayed in the country. It wouldappeal to the lovers of detective novels as much it would appeal to wackyfantasy lovers and uses literary humor, which is emphasized in an allegedmessage by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya. The reader might share theauthor’s sarcasm about overwhelming globalization and the American lifestyle,whose advocates want to impose it on the rest of the world. Wait! It’s not justthat. The reader might get free lessons in the art of cooking.  -Sonallah Ibrahim, Egyptian novelist  

This rollicking, rambunctious, compulsively readable comic novel followsthe adventures of our narrator, Gary, a would-be writer, professor, rebelenvironmentalist, and accused cyber-terrorist on the run, as he encounterscharacters galore, from Cairo, Egypt, to a girls' summer camp in Texas. Alongthe way are murder, drugs, stolen antiquities, arson, sexual hijinks, andvarious international conspiracies that add up to a roller-coaster ride for thereader and, perhaps, some resolution for Gary as he takes on variousidentities, ponders his life, and asks, "Could we ever see ourselves asother saw us?"  - Jennifer Horne,Poet Laureate of Alabama 

Gretchen McCullough has written a wild ride through Cairo and beyond, arollicking adventure tale peopled with grifters, reprobates, scalawags, andscoundrels—plus a few femmes fatale tossed in to keep things teetering onchaos. I couldn't put it down! – TomLutz, Portraits: Moments of Intimacy on the Road  Founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books

 Coming In February2024!

Shahrazad’s Gift is a collection of linked short stories set incontemporary Cairo—magical, absurd and humorous. The author focuses on theoff-beat, little-known stories, far from CNN news: a Swedish belly dancer whotaps into the Oriental fantasies of her clientele; a Japanese woman studyingArabic, driven mad by the noise and chaos of the city; a frustrated Egyptianhousewife who becomes obsessed by the activities of her Western gay neighbor;an American journalist who covered the civil war in Beirut who finds friendshipwith her Egyptian dentist. We also meet the two protagonists ofMcCullough's Confessions of a Knight Errant,before their escapades in that story. These stories are told in the traditionof A Thousand and One Nights. 

Shahrazad'sGift: McCullough, Gretchen: 9781951082437: Amazon.com: Books

About Gretchen!

GretchenMcCullough was raised in Harlingen Texas. After graduating from BrownUniversity in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey and Japan. She earned her MFAin Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was awarded a teachingFulbright to Syria from 1997-1999. Her stories, essays and reviews haveappeared in The Barcelona Review, Archipelago, National Public Radio, StorySouth, Guernica, The Common, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books.Translations in English and Arabic have been published in: Nizwa, Banipal,Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today and Washington SquareReview with Mohamed Metwalli. Her bi-lingual book of short stories in Englishand Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli waspublished in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. A collection of shortstories about expatriate life in Cairo, Shahrazad’s Tooth, was also publishedby AFAQ in 2013. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department ofRhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. Her website:www.gretchenmccullough.wix.com/gretchenmccullough

 

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