Dealing with the Basics

Dealing with the Basics is a six-novel hexalogy. In the first novel mankind does not go to heaven or nothingness after death but to the wilds of Canada. In the second novel, two couples live out their careers at a prep school while concealing their inner conflicts. In novel three a young man tries to rescue his friend from provincial life. In four an Irish innkeeper drives around the island looking for nothingness. In five two friends with unequal intelligence levels play their relationship out. In six an older novelist speaks with some famous literary characters who are trying to escape the fate of the novel.