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Valhalla
A General Fiction Novel by Paul Rudnick
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Time Travel,
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Operatic mashups of Bavarian royalty and wild Texas teens
- Comic epics about beauty, madness, and chasing impossible dreams
- Plays with time-traveling soul mates and eccentric historical figures
Parts for 4 men and 2 women.
VALHALLA intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig of Bavaria, the 1880s Mad King responsible for building a series of storybook castles inspired by Wagnerian operas, and the fictional adventures of James Avery, a wild Texas teenager of the 1940s. These two iconoclasts are tracked from childhood through their deaths, and while they embody separate eras, they are ultimately revealed as time-traveling soul mates.
The play explores questions of beauty and madness, as both Ludwig and James pursue lives of operatic passion, bringing them in contact with such diverse figures as a high-school quarterback, the prettiest girl in Dainsville, Texas, most of the characters of Lohengrin and princess Sophie, who declares herself "the loneliest humpback in Europe."
VALHALLA is a comic epic, confronting the price to be paid for wanting, and getting, everything you dream of.
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