Final Notes...

Oliver Over has one month to live. At least that's the deadline he has set for himself, and the voices in his head agree. In Final Notes..., Kevin Owen Kearney has created a comfortless outsider in Oliver Over, a forty-one-year-old, alcoholic journalist at a small-town newspaper. Over's complicated interior life features his own maniacal musings as well as the commentary of a well-known sports commentator. Over's worst recurring nightmare opens a cabinet of horrors from his past, and his daydreams are exorcisms of regret and self-loathing, spiked with uncontrolled hallucinations and fierce, exacting, biting humor. Kevin Owen Kearney advances our understanding of the most elusive among us with Final Notes.... We hear Oliver Over's howl from hell and embrace it as our own. Kevin Owen Kearney lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This is his first novel.