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Mason Ellis, an African American male born on December 31, 1936, in Georgia. He has a birthmark on his right forearm in the shape of a mudfrog. Brought up in Chicago, Illinois, he is a school dropout who joined the Air Force, serving in Wyoming and Florida. As a father of six children, he deserts his wife and goes to New York. He had served time in Attica from 1977 to 1978 for possession of drugs. Mason is a writer and takes on the identity of the Author, a noted black writer. Under his assumed identity, Mason receives a grant from the Magnan-Rockford Foundation to deliver lectures at colleges and universities throughout the world. Mason's journey is a series of episodic adventures in which dream and reality mix. He passes from country to country embroiled in bombings, kidnapping, and revolutionary wars. Sometimes he reads from his novel in progress, which is about his past life. As Mason sinks into paranoia, he searches for meaning and identity in a variety of places, ending up in a remote African village. |
