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Confessions of a Knight Errant
Drifters, Thieves, and Ali
Baba's Treasure
The book is available worldwide in both print and e-book formats
Confessions of a Knight Errant is a comedic, picaresque novel in the
tradition of Don Quixote with a flamboyant cast of characters. Dr. Gary Watson
is the picaro, a radical environmentalist and wannabe novelist who has been
accused of masterminding a computer hack that wiped out the files of a major
publishing company. His Sancho Panza is Kharalombos, a fat, gluttonous Greek
dancing teacher, who is wanted by the secret police for cavorting with the
daughter of the Big Man of Egypt. Self-preservation necessitates a hurried
journey to the refuge of a girls’ camp in rural Texas. Then a body turns up
nearby that is connected to Middle East antiquities, and they are on the run
once more.
Amazon.com: Confessions of a Knight
Errant: Drifters, Thieves, and Ali Baba's Treasure: 9781951082444: McCullough,
Gretchen: Books
What authors and reviewers are
saying!!!
Few literary works have dealt with the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 as well as
this novel did, whether in Arabic or English, by the American author, Gretchen
McCullough. McCullough survived the events of the uprising at Tahrir Square—the
novel focuses on a group of expatriates who stayed in the country. It would
appeal to the lovers of detective novels as much it would appeal to wacky
fantasy lovers and uses literary humor, which is emphasized in an alleged
message by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya. The reader might share the
author’s sarcasm about overwhelming globalization and the American lifestyle,
whose advocates want to impose it on the rest of the world. Wait! It’s not just
that. The reader might get free lessons in the art of cooking. -Sonallah Ibrahim, Egyptian novelist
This rollicking, rambunctious, compulsively readable comic novel follows the adventures of our narrator, Gary, a would-be writer, professor, rebel environmentalist, and accused cyber-terrorist on the run, as he encounters characters galore, from Cairo, Egypt, to a girls' summer camp in Texas. Along the way are murder, drugs, stolen antiquities, arson, sexual hijinks, and various international conspiracies that add up to a roller-coaster ride for the reader and, perhaps, some resolution for Gary as he takes on various identities, ponders his life, and asks, "Could we ever see ourselves as other saw us?" - Jennifer Horne, Poet Laureate of Alabama
Gretchen McCullough has written a wild ride through Cairo and beyond, a
rollicking adventure tale peopled with grifters, reprobates, scalawags, and
scoundrels—plus a few femmes fatale tossed in to keep things teetering on
chaos. I couldn't put it down! – Tom
Lutz, Portraits: Moments of Intimacy on the Road Founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
Coming In February 2024!
Shahrazad’s Gift is a collection of linked short stories set in
contemporary Cairo—magical, absurd and humorous. The author focuses on the
off-beat, little-known stories, far from CNN news: a Swedish belly dancer who
taps into the Oriental fantasies of her clientele; a Japanese woman studying
Arabic, driven mad by the noise and chaos of the city; a frustrated Egyptian
housewife who becomes obsessed by the activities of her Western gay neighbor;
an American journalist who covered the civil war in Beirut who finds friendship
with her Egyptian dentist. We also meet the two protagonists of
McCullough's Confessions of a Knight Errant,
before their escapades in that story. These stories are told in the tradition
of A Thousand and One Nights.
Shahrazad's
Gift: McCullough, Gretchen: 9781951082437: Amazon.com: Books
About Gretchen!
Gretchen
McCullough was raised in Harlingen Texas. After graduating from Brown
University in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey and Japan. She earned her MFA
in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was awarded a teaching
Fulbright to Syria from 1997-1999. Her stories, essays and reviews have
appeared in The Barcelona Review, Archipelago, National Public Radio, Story
South, Guernica, The Common, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books.
Translations in English and Arabic have been published in: Nizwa, Banipal,
Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today and Washington Square
Review with Mohamed Metwalli. Her bi-lingual book of short stories in English
and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli was
published in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. A collection of short
stories about expatriate life in Cairo, Shahrazad’s Tooth, was also published
by AFAQ in 2013. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. Her website:
www.gretchenmccullough.wix.com/gretchenmccullough
To
request additional review copies or an interview with Gretchen McCullough,
please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com
/ 403.464.6925. We look forward to the
coverage!
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