Fight for Your Long Day: A Novel
COMING IN OCTOBER 2010
Fight for Your Long Day: A Novel
By Alex Kudera
Fight for Your Long Day is a day-in-the-life satire that follows the eventful misadventures of Cyrus Duffleman, a portly, down-and-out educator who teaches at four urban universities and works the night shift.
Alex Kudera’s first novel, set in the postmodern age of pervasive terror, embodies the American-made irony of being overeducated, overworked, and underpaid. The story pace is brisk with unexpected plot twists and turns, as dutiful “Duffy” grimaces and bears the debacle of his day.
Accentuating the farce are corrupt college CEOs, stapler-wielding zealots, bow & arrow assassins, and our inimitable antihero Duffy, with his overstuffed book bag and cynical thoughts intact. Until the novel’s dizzying, frenzied end, it’s anyone’s guess who will escape sane, no less alive.
Skillfully hatched scenes and dazzling imagery make the material prime for film adaptation as a droll comedy. Think Ignatius J. Reilly of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces meets Richard Russo’s Straight Man.
Fight for Your Long Day, an Atticus Trade Paperback Original, will be released in the fall of 2010.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alex Kudera has survived a decade of adjunct-teaching overloads but in some circles is better known for his mysterious injuries. He has bussed dishes and tutored English in two countries and fondly recalls writing in museums, parks, and zoos on several continents. A lifelong Philadelphian until fall 2007, Alex currently teaches literature and writing at Clemson University in South Carolina. Fight for Your Long Day is his first published novel, but he has promised several more.
When: September 19-24, 2010
Where: Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland
"Eye Chart" courtesy of the 
CooL ! Can’t wait to read it. I am a huge fan of Straight Man and Confederacy of Dunces…..
Thanks, Matt!
Alex!
I am so proud of you. At last the world will know your unique sardonic voice. Bravo!
From your former and forever teacher.
Joan Mellen
yay Alex!! doing Wesleyan, Temple Creative Writing and West Philly proud!!!
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Alex’s book is now featured in Sinclair Lewis’ BABBITT on Google Books at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fY_DfeyFa8cC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=twopage&q&f=false