Christopher Klim’s "Idiot!" Dubbed "Gourmet Food for the Mind"

Trenton, NJ, September 25, 2007 --(PR.com)-- After a two-year hiatus, award-winning author Christopher Klim (The Winners Circle, Jesus Lives in Trenton) returns with Idiot! (Hopewell Publications), a novel of isolation, destruction, and ultimately redemption.

“Klim’s latest novel displays that rare combination of excitement and meaningfulness,” says best-selling author Robert Gover. “It’s gourmet food for the mind.”

This novel arrives during an active period for the prodigious author. Klim has been serving as the executive editor for Best New Writing, an anthology that features the results of the Eric Hoffer Award for prose. In the midst of the BNW release, Idiot! comes as a surprise to readers anticipating his upcoming short story collection, True Surrealism.

“Klim always gives me something different than I would suspect,” says top independent reviewer Julia Failla Earhart. “Idiot! is a worthy effort from one of my favorite writers."

Idiot! tells the story of a severely dyslexic forest ranger in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. At its core, the novel draws upon the author’s personal history battling the disability. “When I was a child,” says Klim, “dyslexia didn’t have a name. I still couldn’t read and write functionally by third grade. I learned to cope by discovering a new way of visual learning, but no one could envision me becoming an author.”

The author is a popular speaker on the writer’s circuit, but he often takes side trips to address primary school students. “I know there are kids in the audience who are struggling like I did,” Klim says. “I tell them my story. I offer hope.”

Klim’s satirical novels Jesus Lives in Trenton and The Winners Circle are currently moving toward movie production.

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