Signed Advanced Review Copy of "Stories from the Age of Distraction" limited number available.
We are at a cross-roads in human communication, and that it’s time to ignite a global dialogue about the preservation of storytelling which is being threatened by smart technology, digital detachment, and the loss of human interaction.
Stories from the Age of Distraction is a modern fiction series about two friends that invent a global storytelling app in an effort to save creative expression from the distraction of the digital age.
The app is a dynamic, real-time platform where anyone, anywhere in the world can contribute a line to a collective narrative in an effort to get humanity to tell stories again, as mankind has been doing for 30,000 years.
Volume One: The Island traverses the globe with vibrant characters, vivid places, and the whispers of Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Dylan Thomas, WB Yeats, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Franz Kafka, Eudora Welty, etc.
This first book transports the reader from Central Africa, to Silicon Valley, to the California desert, to Bolivia, to Brazil and finally to a perfect ecosystem in the South Atlantic.
The app ultimately helps the book's characters break through to the creative life force that stories impart as they experience a literary epiphany that makes them fall back in love with words and with the human condition.
Stories from the Age of Distraction offers a unique embrace of the classics as world literature is fused within the optics of modern technology in an attempt to make creative expression relevant again.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
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