River Crossed - Couverture souple

Spang, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798990774407

Editeur : Wisdom House Books, 2024

Synopsis

The River Crossed is a love story with a twist. Jason Follett moves to a small West Virginia town looking for simple life. What he discovers instead is the dark underworld that tempts him to explore parts of himself that he'd most feared. But he also finds in his quest a new way of seeing the beauty of the river and world around him. A local woman becomes his professional and spiritual mentor and teaches him of the power of enduring friendship. He enters the high society of the town, meeting those interested in him as an artist and a lover. Children in his Head Start program challenge him to face the pain of loss and fragility of attachment. He meets Eric and is carried away by the joy of loving another man. Yet he worries if he 'comes out' to others and his family, he will lose not only his job but their acceptance. Debra, a female VISTA volunteer, captures his attention and his hopes of being in a normal relationship. Much as he tries to be faithful to her, Eric is still on his mind. His dilemma is resolved in an unexpected way when President Nixon, in his farewell speech, says something that changes Jason's mind and what he must do to be himself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bruce Spang, former Poet Laureate of Portland, is the author of three novels: The River Crossed from Wisdom House Books, The Deception of the Thrush, and Those Close Beside Me. He's also published five other books of poems: It Goes Like This, All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey, To the Promised Land Grocery and Boy at the Screen Door (Moon Pie Press) along with several other books, anthologies and two chapbooks. He is the poetry editor of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. His poems have been published in Connecticut River Review, Puckerbrush Review, Red Rover Magazine, Asheville Literary Review, Great Smokies Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Muleskinner Journal, Kalopsia Literary Journal, Café Review and other journals across the United States. He teaches courses in fiction and poetry at Great Smokies Writing Program at University of North Carolina in Asheville and lives in Candler, NC with his husband Myles Rightmire and their three dogs, five fish, and twenty birds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wisdom House Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798990774407
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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