Hero Town

Here in Hero Town lives Peter Mulrooney: forty years old, forty years young; an unhitched pedagogue teetering on the edge of fulfilment. Hero Town lies in the middle of nowhere, the centre of everywhere. Its citizens quarrel, grovel and intrigue; succeed and fail in lovemaking. If a man raises his head in pride, they lower it; if he lowers it, they raise it. They adore stories and preserve the life of the imagination. They communicate in the shorthand of the nerves.