Eric James-Olson
ASIN: B00HO3B2Z8
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 33
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A woman has been killed, the murderer is known, and nothing is done about it.
Hamartia is a short story centered on the villain of James-Olson's debut novel, Farmers and Cannibals. The action takes place within the same world and sheds additional insight into the fiendish character of "Big" Frank.
"Big" Frank is by no means a tragic hero in the classic sense of the term, nor does his hamartia or mistake lead to a downfall in a strictly physical sense. As the story unfolds Frank is hypnotized by a cubist painting, so terrible, so ugly, yet so abstract that his thoughts travel further and further away from the terrible crime he has committed, into the future, into his dark past, into the lives of people he has known and ...