By Ron Currie Jr.
A daring, arresting new paintings of fiction from the acclaimed writer of Everything Matters!
during this travel de strength of mind's eye, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity ability extra to us than deeper truths, growing all over again a genre-bending novel that may immediately dazzle, flow, and provoke.
The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.’s new novel has a problem—or fairly, numerous of them. He’s a author whose most recent e-book was once destroyed in a fireplace. He’s mourning the dying of his father, and has been in love with an identical lady on the grounds that grade college, a lady whose good looks and attract is matched merely via her expertise for eluding him. Worst of all, he’s no longer even his personal guy, yet really an amalgam of truth and fiction from Ron Currie’s personal lifestyles. whilst Currie the nature exiles himself to a small Caribbean island to write down a brand new ebook in regards to the girl he loves, he ultimately comes to a decision to faux his loss of life, which seems to be the easiest occupation circulate he’s ever made. yet reputation and fortune include a value, and Currie learns that during a time of twenty-four-hour information cycles, fact television, and famous person Twitter feeds, the single factor the realm won't forgive is having been informed a deeply fulfilling lie.
what sort of contrast may well, or may still, be drawn among Currie the writer and Currie the character? Or among the e-book you carry on your fingers and the radical embedded in it? regardless of the solutions, Currie, a creative author continuously desirous to attempt the limits of storytelling in provocative methods, has crucial issues to impart alongside the best way approximately heartbreak, truth, grief, deceit, human frailty, and blinding love.
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Cried Ned Newton gaily, as he got into one of the several tree canoes provided for the transportation of the party up the Chamelecon river, for the first stage of their journey into the wilds of Honduras. "All aboard! " It brought those days back, in a measure, to Tom also. For there were a number of canoes filled with the goods of the party, while the members themselves occupied a larger one with their personal baggage. Strong, half−naked Indian paddlers were in charge of the canoes which were of sturdy construction and light draft, since the river, like most tropical streams, was of uncertain depths, choked here and there with sand bars or tropical growths.
Damon standing in a little clearing, with upraised club, Tom could not repress a laugh. "Kill it, Tom! " begged the eccentric man. " And so it was, at first glance. For it was a giant iguana, one of the most repulsive−looking of the lizards. Not unlike an alligator in shape, with spikes on its head and tail, with a warty, squatty ridge−encrusted body, a big pouch beneath its chin, and long−toed claws, it was enough to strike terror into the heart of almost any one. Even the smaller ones look dangerous, and this one, which was about five feet long, looked capable of attacking a man and injuring him.
He may get into trouble. " CHAPTER XV. IN THE COILS 49 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Off they started through the jungle, trailing after the impetuous professor who was intent on capturing the iguana. The giant lizard's progress could be traced by the disturbance of the leaves and underbrush, and the professor was following as closely as possible. So fast did he go that Ned, Tom and Mr. Damon, following, lost sight of him several times, and Tom finally called: "Wait a minute. " "I'll have him in another minute," answered the professor.