Clark Gifford's Body by Kenneth Fearing
A radio station is taken over by a band of revolutionaries in a country that is not unlike the USA, a place where "autumn weather always spells football," but which is not the United States. This insurrection is at the center of the novel, and from that center ("During") the novel spreads out through a series of accounts from different times: "Two Months After;" "Eight Years Later;" "The Day After;" "Two Years Before, " and from different perspectives including: "Production Director at WRO," "Waiter in Fenchon's," "in the office of Governor Holling," and twenty or so more. We come to understand the event, or to understand that there is no simple explanation of it or the larger rebellion of which it is a part, no single perspective which gives us the truth about it. At the center of that ambiguity is the revolutionary leader Clark Gifford, and this ambiguity makes the form Fearing has chosen ...