Stewart Parks

eBook, ePUB

Beep! Beyond the Frogpond and Back (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

We've all wondered what we would do if we could live our lives over again, knowing what we know now. It's easy to imagine, but the actual result might be far different than we may think, or wish.... In 1972, Bob B. Pilhaus is a radical, 24-year-old surfer/hippie/intellectual, a cultural refugee, a lost soul, desperately searching for meaning and peace of mind. Stoned and alone on a train to Biarritz, looking for relief in some soothing, autumn waves on the Bay of Biscay, BP tries to ingratiate himself with a beautiful woman in the dining car--a French-Canadian, ex-fashion model named Esmeralda. There is far more to her than it appears, though, and Beep makes a bargain he lives to regret, never dreaming that time travel could be so easy, or that growing up again could be so tough.... Esmeralda is an enlightened, "evolved" human being, with the peculiar ability to sense and manipulate time as completely as others perceive and use the three spatial dimensions. When she meets Beep, on the train, he is at the end of his rope-stoned, self-centered, and nearly suicidal-on the run from the law, lurching towards the future, desperately searching for meaning, redemption, and peace of mind. On his request, Esmeralda sends him back in time to relive the last twelve years of his life, with his memory and knowledge intact. His fervent hope is that he can undo all his previous mistakes, but the reality is far different. Beginning at the end, the story jumps backward to morph into a "coming of age" tale (with a karmic time-trap twist), as Beep lives his life over again, through the politically- and socially-charged decade of the 1960s, growing up in the Southern California surf culture. Join him for an unforgettable trip through a shocking cosmic time-trap of his own making, which leads him on a surprising journey down a mysterious and twisting but familiar road, towards the ultimate answers he seeks to the Really Big Questions regarding truth, reality, and the nature of the universe.

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Autor

As his publisher, I must say that little is known about Stewart Parks, and he seems to like it that way, having refused to submit to his editor either a close-up photo or a biography for inclusion on this website. We have been able to establish that he is a fourth-generation native of San Diego, a UCSD graduate, a member of the WindanSea Surf Club, and a lifelong student of physics, philosophy, and cosmology, who can often be found prowling the beaches of southern California. He claims that his consciousness is frequently involved in inter-dimensional time travel, but his wife tells us that when this happens, it just appears to her that he is napping in his well-stuffed, black leather Barcalounger(r).

We did manage to obtain this statement from him about his reasons for writing this book:

"An anonymous Junebug once said: 'The message is what separates a story from a lie.' My message is aimed at the young adult reader, hoping to find their place in a confusing world, as well as appealing to seekers of all ages looking for existential answers. While attempting to both entertain and inform, my intention is to challenge the reader to examine their most closely held beliefs. My hope is to reconcile spirituality and science, mind and matter, in a way that may help turn us away from separateness and annihilation, the path I fear the world is taking."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 631
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780982114544
• Artikelnr.: 45440886