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Category:
Literary Fiction
Publisher: Richard French
ISBN-10: 1537790676
Type: Fiction
Pages: 368
Copyright: Feb 12, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781537790671
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
The Wakemans are talented, well-established, and ambitious. They're not heroes, so how do they cope when they get into situations that call for heroes?
The Wakemans live in a large city in the northeastern U. S. Life tests them as they struggle to get out of physical, mental, and spiritual low points. Do they rise or sink? The novel includes three interludes that take place in a faraway country that has gone haywire with technology and the paranormal. One of the characters wonders if reality is disintegrating.
Excerpt
It was a warm, late-spring evening in Botolph. Most of the people coming up the stairs from the subway stop at Humboldt Square were headed for the baseball game at Crosby Field. But one member of the rough, amiable crowd, a middle-aged man with two shopping bags filled nearly to the top that were covered all over with drawings of palm trees and coconuts, mingled with the others for a few moments, then walked as fast as he could down a shadowy side street lined with lindens and elms past a row of bent, bursting, metal-hatted trash cans, and then around a rain puddle slowly drying in the evening sun. The shopping bags, whose strong twine handles he held tightly, swished against his legs.
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