The Age of Sinatra. A Novel

2004 Ohle, David (b. 1941). The Age of Sinatra. A Novel. [Brooklyn, NY:] Soft Skull Press. Parts published in different form as “Chili Hearts.” Harper’s 249.1492 (September 1974): 64-67; “Hogshead.” Transatlantic Review, no. 49 (Summer, 1974): 130-38; “The Boy Scout.” TriQuarterly 35.1 (Winter 1976): 39-40; rpt. in The Pushcart Prize, II: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1977), 464-67; “Onebe and the Neutrodynes.” New Mexico Humanities Review 2.2 (Summer 1979): 51-57; “The Flocculus.” Paris Review 22.77 (Winter-Spring 1980): 16-25; rpt. in Pushcart Prize, VI: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1981), 79-87; “Easy Neutronics.” A Reader of New American Fiction. Ed. Robert Fromberg and Rebecca West (Peoria, IL: I-74 Press, 1981), 37-49; “Fastest Brains Preserved.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 41 (Spring 1984): 121-24; “The Log of the Pipistred.” Missouri Review 9.2 (1986): 32-41; “The Work of Art.” Caliban, no. 8 (1990): 85-89; “The Flum.” Conjunctions 26 (Spring 1996): 236-46; “Der Kroetenkusser” Elimae http://www.elimae.com/fiction/ohle/kroetenkusser.html. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Mother and Son” Failbetter, no. 5 http://failbetter.com/05/Mother%20and%20Son.htm. Accessed March 13, 2020; and “Ratt from The Flocculus.” 3rd bed, no. 6 (2002): 131-52 http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010. Other portions, some in different form, have appeared in City Moon (which was a journal co-edited by Ohle with much of the unsigned material written by the editors, and Dominion Review. PSt

Surrealistic dystopia set in an alternative history. Elective surgery to change body parts. Sailing on the Titanic, which has not sunk. Drugs. Weird animals, reanimated dead; regular periods of forgetting. Described as a sequel to his Motorman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972; rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004, which is not utopian. See also 2008 Ohle.