Casket: A Brief Emotional Outburst

Meet Eliot Casket: a lonely, dysfunctional man with a dark past, crude present and a desperate need for a purpose and hope in his lonely, contemptuous existence. His story will test the moral threshold off all readers as it examines fate, obsession, loneliness, love, hope, and dysfunction through an eccentric cast of characters and a series of unorganized events that read like one of Flannery O' Connor's southern gothic stories or as the subtitle of this book suggests; a brief emotional outburst. Casket is Richard Polseno's first book and it is a reflection of an observation that he has made about life. He says, 'There is so much beauty and meaning in the world, but often times we need to sift through levels of pain and undesirable situations to find the purpose and beauty in our lives. For me, this book is one great big example of that idea.'