Tom R Bentley

Aftershock (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake changed-and ended-many Bay Area lives. There were heroes, there were villains, and there were many people shaken (at first, literally) to the core. A huge event like that can throw lives together in startling ways, and that's the subject of my novel, Aftershock.

I wrote the story because I lived in San Francisco at the time of the quake, and had quake-related experiences with people who became models for certain aspects of the main characters. Of course, San Francisco itself is a rich setting for fiction-the disaster circumstances called out to be made into a coherent novel.

The earthquake and its damages are a frame for the emotional damage of the three primary characters. One is a blithe joker who is insecure in his art, one a respected businesswoman who feels lost to her father, and one a military veteran whose alcoholism lost him to his family and himself. Those all sound like downers, but the interplay between these characters-characters who never would have come together in these ways without the quake-is often hilarious. Except when it's not. There's a lot of San Francisco in the book, including the city's beauties, and how the AIDS crisis affects a secondary character and thus the protagonist. Even the Bronte sisters get their moments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Write Word Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798986092843
• Artikelnr.: 72318376

Autorenporträt

Tom Bentley is a business writer and editor, an essayist, and a fiction writer. (He does not play banjo.) He's had hundreds of freelance pieces published-ranging from first-person essays to travel pieces to more journalistic subjects-in newspapers, magazines, and online. He is the author of "All Roads Are Circles," a coming-of-age novel, and "Flowering," a collection of short stories His self-published book on finding and cultivating your writer's voice, "Think Like a Writer: How to Write the Stories You See" was published in June of 2015. He would like you to pour him a Manhattan right at five. You can see his lurid website confessions at www.tombentley.com