Perry Glasser explore les complexités de l'expérience humaine à travers sa prose. Ses œuvres examinent souvent le territoire de la mémoire et de l'identité, abordant fréquemment les thèmes du lieu et de son influence sur la forme. La voix distinctive de Glasser se caractérise par un examen méticuleux de la condition humaine.
Blow Up the Ashes, Vol 2 of American Mayhem, reveals the story of Pierre Doucet, a gambler and then a killer for the New Orleans mob during World War 2 who at one time admires from afar a yellow-haired girl. When decades later he travels to New York, he meets KJ again. They discover she was his "yellow-haired girl. " KJ learns Pierre is a killer, but instead of drawing back in horror joins him. KJ and Buckles come together at the novels' end when Buckles wreaks revenge on Big Bill.
In 1967, the Summer of Love, 17-year old 'Buckles' Sinclair runs from her privileged home in Scarsdale to hitchhike to San Francisco, but instead of Flower Power, Peace, and Love she finds herself plunged into the darkest heart of the American nightmare. Her abandoned mother, KJ, rebuilds her identity and life in the company of a "family" of homosexual men--she is Wendy to The Lost Boys of Manhattan.
In this collection of novellas by Perry Glasser, three very different women find themselves confronting a world of men unable to see them for who they are. They are pursued, tracked, and fearful, but they are never timid. When they turn to face their foes, they must rely on their extraordinary courage and will to prevail. Call it guts, call it bravery - or call it ballsy.