Description:
"Keith and Shelly Fine have been living a typical working class life in Dubuque, Iowa. He's a postal worker, they have a little son named Bobby, and Shelly's a bartender who's cheating on her husband. When Keith discovers her infidelity, he leaves his job, his family, and his home and hits the road. He hopes to find some remaining fragment of who he had once been. He's been following a newspaper column called "Adrian's Adventures" in the Chicago Daily Mail, and, though entertaining, these columns get under his skin. He sets off for Chicago, where he had lived once, in order to confront this 'Adrian,' who sounds like he knows every thing, and to reconnect with his own earlier life. En route he comes across an assortment of very odd characters, including a tavern-sponsored softball team, a biker named Chowder Rat who writes "biker fiction," a pretentious upper-class couple who belong to a religious cult, and eventually Adrian himself, a man whose real name is Jackson Berlin and who is suffering from delusions of a Martian invasion. Keith eventually realizes that Keith has feelings for a single mother named June who works at a diner he had gone to for a long time, so he eventually turns his attention away from the disconnection of life on the fringe of society and works towards building a new life with a new family, even turning his back on Bobby. Keith, apparently, is caught up in his own personal hegira, and eventually has to escape himself and retreat into the safety of relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
