Patricia Dianne Pintar

Golden Hour (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Judith's Story

The story begins in the University of Wisconsin Hospital Emergency Room on a stormy November evening as doctors and nurses struggle to save Judith Von Trier's life. Twenty minutes earlier Judith had crashed across the center line into oncoming headlights. Critically injured, under the brilliant operating lamp, Judith lifts and floats near the ceiling of the trauma room, looking down at herself in the scene below. Defibrillator paddles slapped in place jolt her like a blast of lightning sending her into an oppressive black void. In that moment, she realizes she is in "The Tunnel" looking to the far-off white light at the end of it. A small object begins to materialize out of the light and draws closer. Moments later, a newborn infant girl drops into her arms. Judith is struck with immediate understanding that she holds her future life, her next incarnation in her arms and she knows what she must do to survive.

First, she must travel back forty-seven years to watch her life relived. It is April of 1954 again. Judith views her own birth through the eyes of a newborn. Her life revealed before her just as it happened; a happy early childhood, tragic losses, first love and heartbreak. She is driven to avoid any future pain and takes harsh control of her life and everyone in it until she reaches the moment of the crash again.

"Baby's" Story

Then, more frightening, Judith must see into her possible future life as "Baby" should she die. Judith, wraithlike, is compelled to watch as surreal scenes unfold before her. For the second time in the span of one hour of her life, she sees the moment of her own birth. Judith must wait until Baby's story is finished, knowing all this will happen if she dies, and the terrifying white light tries to claim her. She must stand by helplessly while trying to find her one chance to survive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Seitenzahl: 519
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977263902
• Artikelnr.: 67832173

Autorenporträt

Patricia Dianne Pintar has used experiences from her extensive career in nursing to write The Golden Hour. From Pediatrics to Hospice Care, none had been more challenging than years she spent in the Emergency Room and Critical Care. It was in the ER while she and the team thumped chests and pushed life-saving drugs into unresponsive critical patients that she first began to question. "Where is this person right at this moment?" She'd hoped they were somewhere safe and pain free during the ordeal, but it was an enigma. Writing The Golden Hour is her literary attempt to answer that question. The term 'Golden Hour' was coined by R. Adams Cowley, founder of The Shock Trauma Institute in Baltimore. Dr. Cowley called this critical time 'the time between life and death' when that person has the best chance of survival within the first sixty minutes. In writing The Golden Hour, Pat describes an unexpected phenomenon that occurred. A series of subtle 'leitmotifs,' or recurrent themes throughout the novel appeared on their own. As scenes in Judith's past, present and future unfold the reader may enjoy finding those connections. Pat is an award-winning writer of Idaho Writers Guild and University of Wisconsin Writers Institute writing contests. She is currently living in the foothills of Avimor just north of Boise, ID. She is writing a sequel to The Golden Hour called Echoes of the Past.