Everything you need to understand or teach The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle.
The Fan Man is an almost agonizingly sweet lament for a man caught between an unconventional, highly personal vision of existence and the casual horror of urban life in contemporary America. Because Horse Badorties is involved in such seemingly trivial activity (waking up; ordering food; organizing a musical performance) his encounters and disruptions are cast in a highly comic form, but it is his soul and sanity which are actually at stake in...