Owen Thomas

Signs of Passing (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When is it that we finally wake up in our lives? What convinces us that we have been wrong about the world? When do we know that the usual ways are not working any more, if they ever had, and that it is time to set down one life and pick up another? Winner of over a dozen book awards including the Pacific Book Award for short fiction, here are the voices from Winchester County, less a location than the place that calls to us from beyond the veil of our conscious understanding and sings of how life can be better: • A young boy, abandoned by divorce, discovers something inexplicable happening in the world of Winchester County, his favorite TV western; • A waitress at a bar called The Office, so alienated from the tedium of her own existence that she no longer feels any fear walking home at night in the dark when perhaps she should; • A crime detective novelist so beset by writer's block that he attends the funerals of strangers looking for advice from the dead, unaware that he is being stalked; • A young and secretly talented widow struck by the revelation that her late husband was not the man she thought she had married; • A homeless, rural bus driver forced to confront the possibility that the dreams keeping him alive have been too small for him and that it is better to embrace peril in risking everything for a better life than to live safely in a prison of the familiar; • A squared away child psychiatrist forced to confront the reality that one of his immature patients and an erotic dancer know more than he does about the fraud of his own existence and the secret to happiness; • An assistant veterinarian for a small-town zoo who, unbeknownst to her undeniably perfect husband, has taken to following random strangers around the city as a way of escaping both her guilt and her contentment; • A young photojournalist surrendering herself to the control of a brutish and degenerate winemaker, all to exorcise a past that will not let her go and that holds all love at bay; • A shopping mall employee whose enmity for a local television weather personality is rewarded with an unlikely opportunity for revenge; and • An entertainment media mogul, stricken with sudden news of cancer as he battles in court to retain the rights to remake an old television western about a better life in Winchester County. A collection of separate stories about connected characters, Signs of Passing is devoted to the experience of waking up-of recognizing the better life in all of its unlikely disguises-and then summoning the courage to leave everything else behind, and to give chase before it's too late.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Owen Thomas
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310933912
• Artikelnr.: 47060329

Autorenporträt

Owen Thomas is a life-long Alaskan living on Maui because life is too short for long winters. He has written six books: "The Lion Trees" (which has garnered over sixteen international book awards, including the American Writing Awards, the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, the Beverly Hills International Book Award and, most recently, a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards); "Mother Blues," (a novel of music and mystery set in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas, Finalist for the American Writing Awards and the Book Excellence Fiction Award, and collecting a Bronze in the Readers Views Reviewers' Choice Awards); "Message in a Bullet: A Raymond Mackey Mystery," (the first in a series of detective novels, shortlisted for the Best Mystery Book of the Year by Forward INDIES Book of the Year Awards and collecting a Silver from the eLit Book Awards); "The Russian Doll: A Raymond Mackey Mystery" (the second book in that series); "Signs of Passing" (a book of interconnected short stories and novellas, and winner of fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction, the Indie Reader Discovery Award, the Great Southwest Book Festival, has garnered placements at the Paris, London and Los Angeles Book Festivals and was also named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine); and "This is the Dream," (a collection of stories and novellas that explore that perplexing liminal distance between who we are and what we want; Finalist for the American Writing Awards and the International Book Award in short fiction, and collecting a Bronze in the Readers Views Reviewers' Choice Awards). Owen maintains an active fiction and photography blog on Facebook, Tumblr and on his author website at www.owenthomasliterary.com.

For the ninth consecutive year since he has been measuring his commercial success as an author, Owen has not won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Also, to great acclaim, he has not won the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, in April of 2020, Owen was not nominated for a Pulitzer.

Owen makes his home in Alaska and Maui, Hawaii. When he is not writing, Owen can be found recreating and taking photographs in the grandeur of these wonderfully picturesque locations. Some of these photos are posted on Owen's photo blog, 1000 Words per Frame.