Ron Irwin's Blog: Flat Water Tuesday, A Novel, page 2

AudioFile Loves the Flat Water Tuesday Audiobook!

If you loved THE ART OF FIELDING, you'll love this novel. The sport is crew rather than baseball, the setting is a snotty New England boarding school rather than a midwestern college, but much else fits the familiar mold. The moral and psychological questions at its heart are more interesting than winning or losing: Can anyone change? Where does true strength of character lie? With passion and skill Holter Graham portrays the often maddeningly perception-resistant Rob Carrey, the scholarship kid who must transform himself from lone sculler to team rower, and Graham's racing sequences are heart pounding. Graham delivers a fast-paced, emotional, and thoroughly satisfying listening experience. B.G. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2013]

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New Haven Register on Flat Water Tuesday

New Haven Register on Flat Water Tuesday: "...a dark, yet beautiful, coming-of-age story set in a prep school that examines the price of victory in the wake of a tragedy."

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/20...

Another Mother Runner Loves Flat Water Tuesday

FWT is Recommended Reading for the Summer from Run Like a Mother!!!

http://anothermotherrunner.com/2013/0...

Another Great Review for Flat Water Tuesday

http://www.litnet.co.za/Article/flat-...

Flat Water Tuesday Released Worldwide

Very pleased to note that Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel is now available worldwide. Find it at your local book store or online, in all formats.

Here is the Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Flat-Water-Tues...

Audio Review of Flat Water Tuesday

567 Cape Talk presenter John Maytham reviews Flat Water Tuesday. (Hit link)

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Flat Water Tuesday launch at Cape Town’s Book Lounge, June 5 at 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM

Very pleased to note that John Maytham will be interviewing me about my new novel, Flat Water Tuesday.  Please RSVP if you would like to come!

Invitation to Book Lounge Launch of FWT June 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM

Bev Roos Muller reviews FWT on Fine Music FM 29/5/2013

 

 

BCHOICE – Bev Roos Muller reviews Ronald Irwin   Love this!

 

 

Interview in Pop Matters

I am very pleased with this interview in Pop Matters, which does a wonderful job of tracing the genesis of my novel Flat Water Tuesday. The novel releases worldwide on June 4.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/...

The past is never dead, it’s not even past

Received Christopher Hope’s novel Shooting Angels in the mail and Ken Barris’s Life Underwater as I get ready for the FLF. I will be getting more books in the mail in preparation for my panel discussion with these authors on Saturday 18 May at 4PM , including Alistair Morgan’s The Land Within. All of these novels see adults returning to fractured childhoods, and mine is the only one that doesn’t take place here. All of us seem to be of varying ages and yet we all seem drawn to fixing “something that went wrong a long time back.”  Questions come to mind, like if anything can ever be fixed.  If there isn’t some kind of moratorium on the past, a sell-by date when we no longer care what the past says.  Then the other question: can we fix the past? I tend to think you can fix the past, and if you can’t, you can put a cap on the damage it is leaking into your present. It seems clear that no matter how harrowing I thought my novel was, these guys have me.   I think that I will introduce the idea of exorcism. If these guys were haunted by their pasts the way I was haunted by mine, did writing about help anything? I know that many people who were involved in my past have since found me and asked to read the novel or else simply wanted to touch base. The Faulkner quote ” The past is never dead, it’s not even past” seems to hang very heavy over all of us.