Publisher's Synopsis
The coming of age of Ramedio Kunstler, a spoiled step son hell bent on becoming a performing artist due to his mother's musicial talent as a self taught pianist. Rebelling against his surrogate father while at one and the same time admiring him highly, Ramedio's natural father's suicide further complicates his quest. He finds love but it causes him to pursue his life's dream with greater difficulty than earlier. He drives away his wife only to realize, ironically, that she has cut him free for his own good. He wanders throughout the Americas and then Europe but returns home to reunite with his band of performing artists (then known as Ramedio & the Rangers); whereupon, he is visited by an apparition of his great-great step godfather, Ramuldo, who puts him on a path to a successful career by having him change the band's name to Ramedio and The Strangers -- an act relating back to the murder of one perceived to be a stranger in the Dolomite Alps in northern Italy nearly one hundred years earlier. The narrator of this story, Jasper Windsock Jr. (a boyhood friend and now a practicing psychiatrist), reveals to Ramedio the root of his troubles. His career as a successful performing artist ends with Ramedio finding his true calling.
