Slipping Westerns “Point Counter Point is the

“Point Counter Point is the modem Vanity Fair

” –Philip Wylie

The novel drifts between years

A new collection of poems from the American author

Ignacy Karpowicz is a Polish writer and translator

Slipping Westerns “Point Counter Point is theWhen Albert Jackson, a middle aged school teacher, catches a glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he cannot shake himself free of regret for a life all but squandered. In a blind and demented attempt to salvage something from his life, he sets off, half lucidly, on a libertine mission to reclaim life, to live it exclusively on his terms. But the wild and sinister crime he plots, so characterised by delusion, sets him on a