Browse Delaware Authors: Bannowsky, Phillip

In Autoplant, Phillip Bannowsky journeys from assembly-line dismemberment to redemption, from student agitator and autoworker to teacher, poet, and activist. In the process, we meet his shop mates, Big Man, Billy Goat, Warthog, and Gravy, tormenting each other to pass the time and then coming together one thirsty summer night in a wildcat strike.

"Jacobo the Turko recounts the misadventures of Jacobo Bitar, an Ecuadorian of indigenous and Lebanese parentage, who pursues the American dream only to land--after sojourns in Delaware, Lebanon, Turkey, and Afghanistan--in Guantánamo Prison. The work explores the braided rivers of class, culture, nationality, and identity while addressing fundamental issues of human rights in our time."--Back cover

Neoliberals, neocons, revolutionaries, folk musicians, an ambassador's New Age wife, river-damming landslides, and one entrepreneurial idealist all collide in the Andean paradise of Phillip Bannowsky's satirical romance, The Mother Earth Inn. Hal Rivers, Bannowsky's feckless hero, descends into the Republic of Esmeraldas just in time for the elections of Bill Clinton back home and an insane populist in Esmeraldas. Hoping to do good while doing well, Hal ends up on a quest that is both picaresque and exposé.