Description
Nothing is as it seems under the sharp western sun. After recovering
from an enigmatic and near-fatal illness, Gasteneau, a man with an iron
will, suddenly glimpses something so extraordinary and so horrific that
he feels his life irrevocably altered. But did he really see what he
thinks he saw? In the aftermath of his sickness, he is drawn deeper
into a resolution he made just prior to getting sick: to seek out a
piece of evidence that shows with certainty God's hand at work upon the
earth. But in seeking this evidence, he finds instead that he's growing
more and more obsessed by the loss of his mother, whom he barely knew,
and is pursued as well by a ghostly figure in black and a feeling of
hypochondria he can neither shake, nor fully define. Part mystery
story, part literary crime, More and More unto the Perfect Day is at its
core a tale of philosophical intrigue, a metaphysical thriller that
combines the surreal descriptions of Nabokov with the psychological
complexity of Dostoevsky. The result is a novel of dreamlike strangeness
and philosophical power.