Caelum, a teacher, is absent, attending to a sick aunt across the country. For her part, Maureen discovers horror when violence erupts at the school where she works-namely, Columbine High, in the tidy Denver suburb of Littleton. While Caelum does not take an ax to the offending parties, he is consigned to the hell of anger-management courses all the same. At the beginning of the book, we learn that Caelum’s wife, Maureen, has been engaging in certain extracurricular activities. Like Jack Torrance of Stephen King’s The Shining, Caelum Quirk is a man of ambition who moved to Colorado to find his fortune and wound up teaching creative writing to the unwilling. A glacially paced novel of modern manners and mayhem, its chief elements being middle-aged angst, mass murder and pizza.
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