Ken McAlpine's Blog: The Hesitant Blogger - Posts Tagged "loss"
An affirmation of life and love...
Dear Readers:
I just turned in the line edit for my newest novel, "The Lost Years", which is scheduled for release this fall. I'm really excited about "The Lost Years", which I believe is, at its core, an affirmation of life and love. Here's the synopsis....
Pogue Whithouse is an ordinary, extraordinary man, his rich, but troubled, life spanning surging river rides on the backs of sea turtles, the death of a heroic brother, the corpse-bloated caves of World War II Peleliu and love gone right and wrong. Eighty-five and facing his own horizon, he takes a final trip in search of his country and himself, his shaky will inspired by a creature as old as the dinosaurs and as persistent as time. Encountering a cast of characters – a herpetological hermit, a white supremacist gang, a shy librarian, a woman who rescues starving horses and, most important, a small girl who loves bullfrogs and baseball – he learns to see again the infinite possibilities in an impossibly varied world. Pogue’s story is one of life-altering love and loss, of terrible mistakes, and the possibility of redemption at any age. The pain we suffer is not in things beyond us. The pain is in realizing, too late, that these things were not beyond us at all.
I hope that intrigues you. I worked really hard to write what I hope is a beautiful story.
If you'd like to read an excerpt, please go to http://www.kenmcalpine.com/the_lost_y...
If you'd like to weigh in with your thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
Your lucky writer, Ken
I just turned in the line edit for my newest novel, "The Lost Years", which is scheduled for release this fall. I'm really excited about "The Lost Years", which I believe is, at its core, an affirmation of life and love. Here's the synopsis....
Pogue Whithouse is an ordinary, extraordinary man, his rich, but troubled, life spanning surging river rides on the backs of sea turtles, the death of a heroic brother, the corpse-bloated caves of World War II Peleliu and love gone right and wrong. Eighty-five and facing his own horizon, he takes a final trip in search of his country and himself, his shaky will inspired by a creature as old as the dinosaurs and as persistent as time. Encountering a cast of characters – a herpetological hermit, a white supremacist gang, a shy librarian, a woman who rescues starving horses and, most important, a small girl who loves bullfrogs and baseball – he learns to see again the infinite possibilities in an impossibly varied world. Pogue’s story is one of life-altering love and loss, of terrible mistakes, and the possibility of redemption at any age. The pain we suffer is not in things beyond us. The pain is in realizing, too late, that these things were not beyond us at all.
I hope that intrigues you. I worked really hard to write what I hope is a beautiful story.
If you'd like to read an excerpt, please go to http://www.kenmcalpine.com/the_lost_y...
If you'd like to weigh in with your thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
Your lucky writer, Ken
