About “The Ogre Life” by Gary S. Kadet:
Simon Lesser is a man at a crossroads – seated in the kitchen of his Brooklyn apartment with a corpse lying on the floor next to him, typing furiously on his laptop, trying to make sense of the life that brought him to this point. He’s convinced that everyone and everything is overwhelmed by chaos, and with that thought in mind, he tells a story he wishes to strip of the trappings and art of storytelling – the irreality of emotionalism – and relate the cold facts of its random absurdity in a series of non-linear events. He traces his life as a secret, fetishistic enthusiast for female bodybuilders (called a “Schmoe”), then as a bodybuilding competitor himself, his marriage to German competitive bodybuilder Martina and his doomed love affair with world-class professional bodybuilder Erika Verletzen, an impassioned, indomitable lunatic. Getting involved with Erika Verletzen means getting involved with the underground world of illegal anabolic steroids and the sleazy, criminal world of the dominant bodybuilding federation, the ABC/WWFP (American Body Committee/World Wide Federation of Physiques) and with the menacing gangster of the German criminal “milieu,” WWFP Pro Jurg Betrug, who murders Erika in a fit of what the press and even the courts call “‘roid rage.” Who is the corpse on the floor? Just what will Simon do with the body and with himself? Meanwhile, time is ticking away – and the corpse on the floor is beginning to stink!
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