Launch Delayed 
3 Months Tops!

Originally due out in the fall of '23, this highly anticipated literary time-capsule and collection musings on present-day America is running slightly behind schedule. 

 

 

A semi-autobiographical compilation of thoughts and anecdotes narrated by protagonist Marlo Binkman, a white man of medium build and height, who’s endured the type of pain that leads most men to eat a bullet.  But yet somehow, his resolve is stronger than even he can believe. 

 

Binkman’s struggles of marriage and strife now behind him, he’s once again discovered the basic human right and joy known to us as “free will.”

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While Binkman wrestles metaphorically (and sometimes even in broad daylight) with people representing their version of the American Dream, a frightful many of which are highly opinionated, drugged-out zombies (due either to over-prescribed pharmaceuticals or through a guy who knows a guy), Marlo his primed to set about the world with his version of reality as chronicled through journey's near and far across his American homeland. 

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North American, to be more precise. The United States of America to be perfectly accurate.  

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No doubt feeling the pressure of his retirement-funded “last ditch effort at fame,” Bellamente has had no choice but to skip town in a stolen ‘68 Shelby GT 500.  

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He’s reported to have last been seen “driving at dangerous speeds” through the quaint hamlet of New Braunfels, Texas, where he’d recently spent Christmas fishing the Guadalupe.   

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While rumors abound that Bellamente’s on-again, off-again psychedelic mistress, Ibogaine, is to blame for his (ahem) short-term leave of absence (without pay of course), rest assured by all of us here at Bootlace Productions International, this is in NO WAY, SHAPE or FORM, the same level of “Ibogaine Effect” that brought Edmund Muskie’s 1972 Presidential’s campaign hopes asunder. 

 

Thanks, of course, to the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson who asserted (correctly we assume) that Muskie had all but traded in his hand of political valor for a boat-load of “that Ibogaine stuff.”  

 

Either way, “Gospel of a Heathen” is now due out in May 2024 on Amazon

Launch to be followed by a round-the-world promo tour (cities currently on the docket: Berlin, Sofia, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Dublin, Lisbon and Hong Kong.*)

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Hang Tight. Thanks.

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Marlo T. Binkman

(on behalf of Michael Aloysious Bellamente)

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* Chaperones, escorts, shamans and spiritual healers inquire within.

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Pay commensurate with experience.