The Appointment

By: Mike Maggio

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Paperback | 8 May 2017

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On a cold December morning, Professor Jeremy Withers is waiting on a jam-packed subway platform for his train to arrive when a youth gang arrives and goes on a rampage. Brandishing chains, they terrorize the crowd of unsuspecting commuters, choosing Professor Withers as their main victim and leaving him for dead. After regaining consciousness, Professor Withers makes his way to campus and reaches his office only to find that it is completely empty--as empty as it was on the very first day he began his teaching career some 30 years before. As he contemplates this improbable circumstance, he is visited by two mysterious inspectors who appear at his door. Believing that they have come to investigate the crime that has just taken place, he soon finds that they are as enigmatic as the bureau they claim to represent, and he spends the next few days trying to locate them in a world that suddenly appears uncanny and unforgiving.

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“Mike Maggio’s The Appointment is a contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and merciless academia. Maggio’s anti-hero tries to seek some help—some human concern for his existential plight—but, like Kafka’s K or Tolstoy’s dying Ivan Ilych, fails to find the recognition and human warmth he so desperately needs. The Appointment is a story of existence and mortality and those who avoid human community who are ultimately left totally alone.” JUDITH MCCOMBS, THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEW

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“With all the dread-filled propulsion of certain dreams, Mike Maggio’s The Appointment runs on urgency. No time to get a grip on what just happened or what adds up: Professor Withers has been wounded somehow, and yet he still strives for agency and meaning, as though the powers of officialdom were not driving him relentlessly towards the appointed end.” MADELEINE MYSKO, BRINGING VINCENT HOME AND STONE HARBOR BOUND

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“Mike Maggio has one of the weirdest minds I’ve ever come across, and like all weird minds it is fascinating, colourful, dramatic, and hilarious. Read, laugh, ponder.” SOPHY BURNHAM, AUTHOR OF LOVE, ALBA

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