![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, we find him moving about in a kind of daze, habit-bound and routinized, yet prone to sudden outbursts in his classroom and in social settings, where his rage and frustration push through. The author of two critically acclaimed novels, he has had writer's block for years and spends his time teaching fiction workshops to undergraduates who write "an awful lot of stories about humans having sex with animals." Tenured at his job and happily married for more than 20 years, Ted is not, in any obvious way, a man in crisis. Ted Swenson is a middle-age professor of creative writing at a small college in Vermont, "Deep in the Northeast Kingdom, an hour from Montpelier, sixty miles from Burlington, one hundred fifty from Montreal if you're desperate enough to wait at the border while the Mounties tweeze through each car to discourage Canadians from crossing to shop at the Wal-Mart." When the book begins, Ted is, in fact, growing increasingly desperate, though he doesn't quite recognize it himself. ![]()
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