The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

Faustus Bidgood chronicles the final days in the office of the obsequious little bureaucrat of the title who, after a decidedly lachrymose revolution, becomes the first ruler of the People's Republic of Newfoundland. Possessed of a profound guilt and a pornographic imagination, Faustus walks through life like a shell-shocked Milquetoast, his febrile imagination constantly slipping between then and now, here and there, reason and nuttiness.