Download or read book The Ironsmith: A Tale of Obsession, Compulsion and Delusion written by Reyoung and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of myth and fairytale, in particular the tradition of the wise old wizard mentoring a bumbling apprentice, and told in language echoing Homer, Beowulf, biblical scripture and John Coltrane, among others, The Ironsmith evolves into a surreal Bildungsroman of a self-perceived "monster," a painfully introverted young man whose obsession with the ancient sport of weightlifting causes him to withdraw into an increasingly delusional world that anachronistically intersects classical Greece, the Middle Ages, the Industrial Age, WWI and II, the tumultuous sixties, and the age of the Internet.