Paradise by Paradise

A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, Roland
Paradise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony of
those who knew him and those he knew.

In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boy
genius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, to
hermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, the
epicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Where
is he? Is he? Was he ever.?

His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machine
knocked senseless by the insane attempts of others to decode it as
though it held an inherent truth while driving him to another time, to
anytime.

Roland Paradise was ultimately a sad and lonely figure, a possibly
delusional reclusive intellectual for whom life held little joy. For all his
brilliance, he never learned life's simplest lessons. A compulsive fabulist
whose life and disappearance was more fantastic than any of the stories
he invented or the lies he couldn't help telling.