{"product_id":"jyzeburst-annal-one-of-the-jyze-age-9780996417310","title":"Jyzeburst - Annal One of the Jyze Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e (For All Annals)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e While preparing to write a novel about a torrid love triangle he'd stumbled into in his early twenties, the author G.P. Sandefjord conjures up a bold new prose style for his first-person narrator in the novel -- a younger version of himself. This new style, which the author dubs, half seriously and half not, \"jyze,\" rapidly grows -- or better to say bursts -- into an entirely serious literary form all its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meanwhile a crisis arises concerning the author's day job and he decides to suspend work temporarily on the novel and take jyze out for a kind of shakedown cruise focusing on the job crisis. And...a dozen jyze-obsessed years later the cruise returns to port with the completed draft of an eight-volume, 4,000-page series called Annals of the Jyze Age, of which Jyzeburst is Annal 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With the Year 2000 Millennium at their center, all eight annals proceed chronologically and build on their predecessors. But each is also designed to -- and does! -- stand alone as a novel. And all are set in a single U.S. West Coast metro area at the heart of which rises Jyze City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Right at the start, then -- spoiler alert for this and the following paragraph -- a digital disruption torpedo (Annal 1). Not too long after that a wrenching death in the family and an almost simultaneous breakup of a longtime \"zen marriage\" (Annal 2). Next a couple of unforeseen plot shifts causing plenty of confusion and anguish (Annal 3) (also there and elsewhere: Grunge! New World Order! Global roasting!). And (Annal 4) (talking \"Jyze in Love\" here), the jyzer whiffs again and again back in the romance bazaar but then a blast of a love mash-up -- something astoundingly new -- but not without a glitch or two. (Jyze always growing and changing and begetting new glitches.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then an official domestic partnership (Annal 5) as all glitches miraculously clear at least for a moment. Followed by (Annal 6) a wingding of a wedding, a ribald honeymoon, a world-rocking globalization protest, a thousand-year celebration with real terror mixed in -- and then three months later arrives the True Millennium. (Erotic explicitness warnings on Annals 4, 5, and 6.) A brief respite of sorts follows and then 9\/11 hits and a couple of mad wars launch (Annal 7) just as a landmark yearlong lunar birthday rolls around and a long-lost prodigal son shows up in J-town. And then finally (Annal 8), condo life looms (oh no!) not to mention surefire domestic bliss (could it be?), but first jyze must stick the landing -- and does! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandefjord, G. P.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A graduate of Amherst College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, G.P. Sandefjord gigged widely for years as a college English teacher, newspaper reporter\/editor, and adult literacy instructor, to name but a few, before stumbling upon \"career day-job nirvana\" as nightscoper for a court reporting firm. He lives in Seattle, Washington.","brand":"House of Jyze Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676078833938,"sku":"9780996417310","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08563d04-c4d2-43b9-a262-3b64a604a066.jpg?v=1761042011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jyzeburst-annal-one-of-the-jyze-age-9780996417310","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}