Signals from a Lampless Beacon (ePub)
:Beasts of Burden
(Sprache: Englisch)
A long-dark lamp is rekindled.
The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage of...
The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage of...
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A long-dark lamp is rekindled.
The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage of cultivation, moral strength, and compassion is allowed to stand forth in a chronicle of two races, of three families, of four generations, beginning in Wartime of 1941-1945.
Abduction aboard a U-boat; violation, suicide, and intimations of redemption; global amnesia, its complications, its release; extortion by a priest preparedhe supposesto commit murder in the process; falling in love; losing ones love; near-drowning at the climax of an idiosyncratic deer-shootthese are elements of a story punctuated by homilies from a clergyman wandering quietly away from Christian orthodoxy toward heresy...or toward Apollonian light.
If the story ends, its symbols and themes need not; no more than ends Mr. Benny Ormond, veteran of the Great War who has escaped so many threats to life to which those around him have succumbed that he comes to suspect, against his better judgement, that he is destined not to see death.
Throughout, the reader is directed away from the sense of mans possession of God to a beginning grasp of God as Self-transcendent...leaving an apparent emptiness, into which, however, for the watchful, signals pour, saying, Lift up your Hearts.
The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage of cultivation, moral strength, and compassion is allowed to stand forth in a chronicle of two races, of three families, of four generations, beginning in Wartime of 1941-1945.
Abduction aboard a U-boat; violation, suicide, and intimations of redemption; global amnesia, its complications, its release; extortion by a priest preparedhe supposesto commit murder in the process; falling in love; losing ones love; near-drowning at the climax of an idiosyncratic deer-shootthese are elements of a story punctuated by homilies from a clergyman wandering quietly away from Christian orthodoxy toward heresy...or toward Apollonian light.
If the story ends, its symbols and themes need not; no more than ends Mr. Benny Ormond, veteran of the Great War who has escaped so many threats to life to which those around him have succumbed that he comes to suspect, against his better judgement, that he is destined not to see death.
Throughout, the reader is directed away from the sense of mans possession of God to a beginning grasp of God as Self-transcendent...leaving an apparent emptiness, into which, however, for the watchful, signals pour, saying, Lift up your Hearts.
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Traywick
Paul Traywick was born and brought up in the small-town South. Later, he earned degrees from Princeton (A.B.), Harvard (A.M., Ph.D.), and Johns Hopkins (M.D.) Universities. He has published in professional and learned journals, but he offers now his first published fiction. He has lived either through or alongside events, and among people, equivalent to the ones the reader will see and hear in his pages. He and his wife of forty years live in the mountains of Western North Carolina in summer, in the Carolina Lowcountry in winter.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Traywick
- 2009, 312 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: iUniverse
- ISBN-10: 1440126402
- ISBN-13: 9781440126406
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.03.2009
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