{"product_id":"the-hierophant-of-100th-street-isbn-9781583942536","title":"The Hierophant of 100th Street","description":"***WINNER – IPPY Bronze Book Award – Best Regional Fiction (2009)\u003cbr\u003e***WINNER – BookBundlz Best Book (2009-2010 Winter Award) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hierophant  of 100th Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable, unusual book: a metaphysical novel set in a violent  world of slums, gangs, and prisons. Drawing on the author's experience of growing  up in the infamous East Harlem neighborhood of 100th Street in the 1960s, the story  follows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respective  initiations into the realities of street life while simultaneously introducing real-life  characters who dwell in the life of the spirit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eVeiled in the guise of fiction,  most of what appears in the book is actually a truthful account of the author's real-life  experience.  Like the author, the young Adam also ventures out from the slums of  New York to discover the meaning of life amid the horrors of existence, and finds  romance, mysticism, and purpose.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSeeking to extricate himself from 100th Street,  Adam is drafted into the army and later travels to Egypt, where in a harsh world  of theocrats and misogynists he falls in love with a young Arab woman. Out of his  element, he attacks the social structure—and ends up running for his life. He returns  back to the old neighborhood only to find it changed … destroyed by an invasion of  drugs, betrayal, and murder.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy chance he encounters a mysterious man, Clifford  Bias (a renowned twentieth-century clairvoyant), and is taken under the wing of the  \"magus.\" Discovering his own psychic abilities, Adam enters his mentor's secret society  and a world of mysticism and love. Tapping the same rich spiritual vein as \u003ci\u003eThe Da  Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Celestine Prophecy\u003c\/i\u003e and written in the stark language of the streets,  this daring, cinematic novel explores the ancient truths and metaphysical mysteries  hidden in the fabric of everyday life.“Populated by souls in bodies amid bodies seeking souls, \u003ci\u003eThe Hierophant of 100th  Street \u003c\/i\u003eblends the grandeur and cosmic tragedy of \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story\u003c\/i\u003e with the spiritual  wisdom of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e. Dorn’s landscape is as bleak as drug-ravaged Spanish  Harlem, clitoridectomy in Egypt, and the bowels of the American penal system and,  at the same time, as transcendent as Afro-Reggae and the channelings of Edgar Cayce.  This is a novel in which characters are truly born again and again and again. . .  . It moved me to tears.”\u003cbr\u003e—Richard Grossinger, author of \u003ci\u003ePlanet Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bardo  of Waking Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book is special. An unusual and passionate novel, moving and  fun to read, \u003ci\u003eThe Hierophant of 100th Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a mixture of esoteric wisdom and Hugh  Selby’s \u003ci\u003eLast Exit to Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e. A large novel in scope, it somehow manages to include  both hell and heaven. Dorn really is an untutored genius.”\u003cbr\u003e—Gerald Rosen, author  of \u003ci\u003eThe Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Bronx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“While Dorn does connect the spiritual aspect of the story to the larger picture of 100th Street, it is these characters that brought the book to life for me…\u003ci\u003eThe Hierophant of 100th Street\u003c\/i\u003e shows that life may not be all that it seems and that even in the darkest of situations, there is promise, if not in the here and now, then somewhere else.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDiary of an Eccentric\u003c\/i\u003eCullen Dorn was born in New York City in 1947 and raised in East Harlem, barely making it through high school. Homeless on three separate occasions, he has served in the Army, been a mailman and taxi driver in New York, a bartender in Miami, and is currently an airline grounds operator in Orlando and resides in Kissimmee, Florida.","brand":"Frog Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299876229349,"sku":"NP9781583942536","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781583942536.jpg?v=1767739785","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-hierophant-of-100th-street-isbn-9781583942536","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}