Presenting a new novel by

Harvey Jacobs

Side Effects

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Side Effects recounts the medical misadventures of Simon Apple from an

eventful Midwestern youth through a series of events that have landed him on

Death Row for the capital (and capitalistic) crime of threatening a major

pharmaceutical conglomerate…not to mention the nation’s

unbalanced balance of trade!

Simon’s life has been one long wrestle with Miracle Cures, each of which has

caused increasingly bizarre consequences, requiring more, and still more, Miracle

Cures in an escalating spiral...those Wonder Drugs we hear about every night on

the eleven o’clock news.

On the day Simon prepares for his final exit, Regis Van Clay, the short-fused

CEO of Regis Pharmaceuticals, celebrates the profitable prospect of a Simonless

world. While Simon contemplates his trip to eternity, he must suffer a parade of

visitors--relatives, friends, enemies, lovers-- from the maze of his surreal past.

A rollicking ride that ranges from horrendous to hilarious, Side Effects is also a

coming-of-age novel whose hapless hero is caught in an existential pickle barrel

where biography itself is a collection of unintended consequences… a prescription

for a splendid read where RX marks the spot.  (Ask your doctor!)

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CRITICAL PRAISE  FOR  JACOBS’  PREVIOUS WORKS

“Every page—every half-page—yields some sudden jolt of comic or lyric observation.”

- The Washington Post

“Jacobs’ bawdy romance demonstrates that enduring comedy springs from deep- seated  anxieties… Inspired.”

- Time Magazine                                                                                                 

“Exceptional wit and wry insight…a skewed hybrid of Huxley and  Vonnegut...”

- Booklist (American Library Association)             

“Stunningly inventive and charming fiction. [American Goliath is] arguably  this year’s best novel.”

- Kirkus Reviews                                                                                              

“Here is an author who sees life clearly and with humor…”

- Publishers Weekly

“Move over Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Heironymus Bosch. At last we’ve got another original.”

- Philadelphia Inquirer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harvey Jacobs began his career with the Village Voice, went on to publish

East for Manhattan’s Lower East side, then joined the ABC Television’s

Worldvision network encouraging the development of worldwide satellite

communications. He later resigned an executive position to write full time.

He is the author of five novels, American Goliath, Beautiful Soup,

The Juror, Summer on a Mountain of Spices, the new Side Effects,  

and two short-story collections, My Rose & My Glove and The Egg of

the Glak. His stories have appeared in many magazines in America and   

abroad, including Esquire, Playboy, Omni, Paris Review, Fantasy &  

Science Fiction, New Worlds and in more than thirty anthologies.

He has also written for radio and TV. Widely recognized, his awards  

include a fiction fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a

New York State Arts Council drama fellowship, the Earplay award for Radio  

Drama, The Playboy Fiction Award, several PEN Syndicated Fiction

awards, a Writers Guild of America Script Award etc. He lives and works in

Sag Harbor, New York.

Title: Side Effects, A Novel                                

Trade paperback 6X9

Author: Harvey Jacobs

392 pages

Cover Art: Gahan Wilson

ISBN: 9780963418517

Publisher: Celadon Press

LOC: 2008936838

Book Design: Chet Gottfried

PRICE: $20 US

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