Novel of the Upside Down Generation Released in May

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Koehler Books is bringing out William Hazelgrove's novel, Rocket Man. Touted as the novel of the Upside Down Generation , Rocket Man is a satire aimed squarely at the American Dream and defines The Great Recession Generation.

Chicago, IL, February 04, 2013 (PressReleasePoint) -- The novel of the Upside Down Generation will come out with Koehler Books www.koehlerbooks.com/books/rocket-man on May 1, 2013. William Hazelgrove" fourth novel is a hilarious satire of life today, a time when middlle class America is holding on by it's fingernails to the increasingly elusive American Dream. The Chicago Sun Times calls the book: "the funniest novel since Richard Russo's Straight Man, rich with the epic levity of John Irving and salted with the perversion of Updike."

A story of what has happend to the middle class, Hazelgrove felt like he wanted to record what was happening around him. He looked around the neighborhood he was living in and saw people barely hanging on before they slipped into foreclosure. "I knew then the American Dream had gone into reverse and become really one of starting over. Really going back to a simpler time. An American Dream in reverse." www.billhazelgrove.com

Already garnering rave reviews from the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly and Top Amazon Reviewers, Rocket Man could be the Catcher in the Rye for the Great Recession Generation. Chronicling the life of Dale Hammer as he tries to find meaning in the Suburban Landscape, Rocket Man garners comparisons to The Graduate and American Beauty as a book that has captured a moment in time when America changed and a world of downsizing replaced what was an American Dream founded on bigger is better.
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