Eric Kiefer

The Soft Exile (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the publication of his debut novel, The Soft Exile, writer/musician Eric Kiefer ended a five-year, 12,000 mile exodus.

The fictional memoir draws heavily from his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia. During this time, Kiefer gathered the raw material and life experiences that would later become The Soft Exile.

The book chronicles an idealistic, young American's decision to join the Peace Corps after an aborted suicide attempt. He spends two years as a TEFL volunteer in the fabled lands of the Mongolian desert-steppe, searching for redemption and an alternative to modern American life. Along the way, he constructs a low-powered radio station and tries his best to go native, all the while lusting for an answer to a question that will either doom or save everything... "What is the value of a good deed?"

"Word for word, it's not exactly what happened to me out there," Kiefer said of Soft Exile. "But it's about as close as you can get without becoming a confession. It's a novel for the expatriates within us all."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eric Kiefer
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311981578
• Artikelnr.: 47073840

Autorenporträt

Eric Kiefer is an award-winning wordsmith, a modern-day troubadour and a 20-year factotum.

Apparently, the dude has a way with words. His debut novel "The Soft Exile" was named as one of the "Books We Loved in 2012" by the East Bay Express, and his journalism has earned awards from the New Jersey Press Association and the NJ Society of Professional Journalists. He is the writer behind "Your Seed For The Moon: A Graphic Novella."

Kiefer is also a unique one-man-band and singer-songwriter. His discography includes his funk-folk-tinged debut album, "The Spectre and the Dozer," his poetry/music mashup, "Spoken Word For The Doomed," and the tongue-in-cheek collection of oddities, "Life is Soup. I'm a Fork."

His work also includes the concept album, "The New Zeitgeist: Songs From The Zombie Apocalypse" and its accompanying e-book, "The New Zeitgeist: A Tale From The Zombie Apocalypse."

The wordsmith and troubadour is equally as proud of more than a decade of blue-collar work experience, which includes jobs at almost a dozen local gas stations, fast food joints and supermarkets, as well as gigs as a mall Christmas elf, a highway road flagger, a kennel attendant and a pancake-house waiter.

Learn more about the artist and download awesome stuff at www.TheKiefer.com