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1998: A man takes a gap year in Prague, womanizing the city with a vengeance.
The Chimera of Prague
What you need to know before your trail
Divorced expat, Joseph, takes a gap year in the late nineties, womanizing Prague with a vengeance. He obsesses over one elusive girl, and tires of the parade of women he assimilates into his sad life, His soulmate is out there. In fact, he may have already met her.
“Chimera” features a unique story-within-the-story format as Joseph digs from finish to start through his first love in an attempt to understand his particular brand of dysfunction. As much as the big story is about a love affair with a magical city, the vignettes are an ode to Western New York State from which he hails, and the woman who originally broke his heart.
Locations
Reset- Czech Republic - Prague
- A: Charles Bridge
- B: Terminal Bar
- C: Museum of Public Transport
- D: Prague Castle
- E: Radost
Travel Guide
BookTrail Travel to Prague
“Prague is full of metaphors. They’re not lost on Joseph. He’s on a stone bridge between his old life and his future. He’s building a castle of every architectural style around his heart. He needs to throw his obsession with an elusive Czech girl out the window, in order to crystallize his sense of self. He’s a lump of clay waiting to be animated, and he’s an alchemist in search of life’s secret formulae, to be engraved on a shem and placed beneath his tongue.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Chimera of Prague
Destination: Prague Author/Guide: Rick Pryll Departure Time: 1998
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