Everything seems fine until a dog in Galen begins talking to Abbey. Told through realistic first person narration, the novel concerns a young schoolteacher, Thomas Abbey, researching the life of a favorite children's book author of his youth, which involves meeting the author's daughter in her and her late father's seemingly idyllic (fictitious) home town of Galen, Missouri. His first novel, The Land of Laughs (1980), is indicative of his general style and subject matter. He relocated to Vienna, Austria a few years later and began teaching literature at the American International School, and has made his home in Austria ever since. A self-described "troubled teenager", he finished primary education at the Loomis School in Connecticut and graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1971, marrying artist Beverly Schreiner in the same year. His parents were Jewish, but Carroll was raised in the Christian Science religion. He is the half brother of composer Steve Reich and nephew of Broadway producer Leonard Sillman. Life and work Ĭarroll was born in New York City to Sidney Carroll, a film writer whose credits included The Hustler, and June Carroll (née Sillman), an actress and lyricist who appeared in numerous Broadway shows and two films.
Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy.
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