Calliope is a book dealing with the reality of loss. Specifically it is the protagonist coming to terms with the idea that as one grows older, one inevitably becomes less enthusiastic, less joyous and intrinsically bored with all of the things he so fervently celebrated in youth. This is the loss the reader is introduced to at the beginning of the book. It is the loss of all material possessions, of innocence, of identity, of sympathy, of happiness, of God and hope. And perhaps it is the latter that the protagonist desires most since all sincere belief in the world springs forth from...
Calliope is a book dealing with the reality of loss. Specifically it is the protagonist coming to terms with the idea that as one grows older, one ine...
