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A beautiful and compulsively readable literary debut that introduces Owen Burran Olympian whose dreams of greatness are dashed and then transformed by an epic journeyand his father, Professor Joseph Burr, who must travel the world to find his son. After his athletic career ends abruptly, Owen flees the country to become an artist. He lands in Berlin where he meets a group of art monsters living in the Teutonic equivalent of Warhols Factory. After his sons abrupt disappearance, Burr dusts off his more speculative ideas in a last-ditch effort to command both Owens and the world's attention. offers a persuasive vision of faith, ambition, art, family, and the myths we write for ourselves.