An Exaltation of Larks

Robert Reed

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Jesse is the kind of callow, sly college man who has it all. He's editor of the student newspaper, enormously popular with the female students, breezing through with terrific grades. But he's oblivious to the fragile balance of life, until something utterly strange strips away the surface calm of his existence and exposes a universe that proves uncontrollable and endlessly mutable. For Jesse has become the focus of a conspiracy of creatures from beyond the end of time to re-create our universe anew. Blinded by sex and greed, Jesse can't see the terrible flaw in their vast plan—until a wonderful woman named Sully comes into his life and turns everything right side up. The result is a wild, erotic joyride, a no-holds-barred tour de force, and, finally a novel of sublime grace and beauty, a testament to the transcendent power of love.