by Peter Huston (Author)
"What's wrong with this city?" Tony, Alistair, and Robin are three young people coming of age and trying to find their future in Schenectady, a city that has seen better days. Tony wants fame and influence as a writer. Robin dreams of making the world a better place and helping those in need. Alistair simply wishes to find love and understand what's going on around him. But before they can achieve these goals, there are a few things they need to understand. Things such as, does Schenectady have a future? And what's with all those chemicals? And why's all the wildlife so mutated? And what's an OOWMSA? And why's everyone talking about the Illuminati? But that's normal for Schenectady . . . If you like the writings of Kurt Vonnegut and Chuck Palahniuk, and such films as "Repo Man," "Heathers," and the recent films of Bobcat Goldthwait, you might want to try "Excess Emotional Baggage -An Amazing, SEMI-TRUE, post-industrial, pulp-fiction TALE OF SCHENECTADY." Remember, it's only semi-true, but it's the really strange parts that actually happened. Peter Huston is the author of several books, magazine articles, and other writings. Intended for the collector of Peter Huston's works, "Excess Emotional Baggage -an Amazing, SEMI-TRUE, post-industrial, pulp-fiction, adventure TALE OF SCHENECTADY," is a limited release of his first novel. At times overly personal in subject matter, in places flawed and self-indulgent, nevertheless, Excess Emotional Baggage often shows the great promise and quirky insights that characterize his later works.
Author Biography
About the Author Peter Huston is a former newspaper reporter who has lived in the Stockade neighborhood of Schenectady while covering the Hilltowns of rural Albany County as a newspaper reporter. He has covered waste disposal news as a journalist. He is the author of three published, non-fiction books, many magazine articles, and countless media reviews, newspaper stories, and op-ed pieces. His writing has been translated into half a dozen languages. He's worked as an EMT, Security Guard, Newspaper Journalist, Teacher of English as a Second Language in the USA, Taiwan, and China, as well as a Concert and Large Event Security person, Refugee Relocation Worker, and, for a short, unhappy time as a New York State Tax Collector in a phone bank. He has several hobbies and has competed at the national level in skeleton, a high speed, sledding sport related to bobsledding, something he has also dabbled in. He has a strong interest in Asian languages and cultures, having lived in Taiwan for four years, Shanghai for two more years, and having earned a Master's degree in East Asian Studies from Cornell University.