Chris Bradbury

Eidolon Chris Bradbury

Jumeau You have brought to me nothing but pain and disappointment. You cannot hold down a job. You have no friends. You hate the world for no more reason than that it has the gall to exist. You are just so indifferent towards all the things that you are supposed to love and so full of vitriol for things you don't even know. You are a man of many rooms, Jumeau, each of them closed off from the others so that there is never any conflict within or without. You keep your feelings stored in unopened boxes that lie dusty upon the floors of these rooms and, unless you are willing to open them, I fear that you will always be alone and fear that you think this the right way to be. It is not. Jumeau awakens one day to the sound of knocking at his door. With fear and trepidation, he opens it and thus begins the journey of discovery that he needs to finally make himself complete. And what a journey it is. He takes us through the world of his city at night, Jazz, champagne and crab on the coast, scarred acquaintances and sexual misadventures and the bizarre events that he must go through if he is to finally find the real Jumeau.