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4 Novels by Paul Watkins
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Overview: PAUL WATKINS is thirty-one years old. In addition to being one of the best-reviewed new writers on the American literary scene, he is also one of the most colorful. The California-born son of Welsh parents, Watkins grew up on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, and was educated at Eton and Yale. His most recent book, Stand Before Your God, is a memoir about an American’s coming-of-age at a British boarding school. His widely praised first novel, Night Over Day Over Night, the story of a young SS soldier during the Battle of the Bulge, was published when its author was twenty-three, and was nominated for the Booker Prize. To research the book, Watkins hiked through the Ardennes forest, where the battle took place, and interviewed veterans of both sides. Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, which was awarded Britain’s Encore Prize for best second novel, reflects several seasons Watkins spent working on trawlers off the New England coast. For his third novel, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, Watkins learned to fly a biplane and spent months in the Moroccan Sahara. And before he wrote The Promise of Light, he lived in the Irish towns of Lahinch and Ennistymon and drew upon a vast body of historical literature in order to study the Irish independence movement from all angles.
Watkins lived and worked in the woods of northern Maine while researching Archangel, his sixth book. He makes his home near Princeton, New Jersey.
Genre: Fiction > Contemporary Fiction, Thrillers & Mystery
Archangel: Watkins, a gifted young novelist who stands head and shoulders above his more popular but less capable peers (e.g., Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, Douglas Coupland), most recently raised readers' eyebrows with his fascinating memoir, Stand Before Your God (LJ 11/15/93). In this return to fiction, the thinly veiled title character, Adam Gabriel, returns to his hometown in Maine to battle Jonah Mackenzie, a ruthless logging baron who is destroying the wilderness. Gabriel proves as single-minded as Mackenzie, however, and engages in dangerous "tree-spiking" (i.e., driving long nails into trees in order to discourage chainsaw-bearing loggers). When the dust clears, four men are dead. Unfortunately, the devices that worked so well in Watkins's other novels?idealistic, romantic characters; exotic settings; tight, affecting prose?fall flat here. Female characters in particular, most notably an unstable local woman known as "Mary the Clock," are poorly sketched. Archangel is not up to the author's usual standards, and unless Watkins has a following at your library you can pass on this one.?
The Promise of Light: It is 1921, and young Ben Sheridan's Irish-American father mysteriously dies in their small Rhode Island town. Determined to learn the truth about his family's cloudy past, he sets sail for Ireland, and quickly becomes involved in a struggle between soldiers of the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the brutal British troops. Amidst the lush and rugged Irish countryside, and the horrible violence unfolding across it, Ben must search for the truth of his identity, and the ties of his family's blood.
Little White Lies: Philip Richards is a man who appears to be everything he isn't. Well dressed, well spoken and successful by any measure, his world is changed overnight when his beautiful wife, Laura, dies unexpectedly. Lost and adrift, he finally decides to take charge of his life once again and strikes out on a completely different path, one that leads to murder and mayhem. But the strange things about all this is that Philip isn't slowed or intimated by these events. Instead he seems to thrive on them.
Is Philip all he appears to be, or is there a dark side that is worse than the terrible people he faces? Is he the hunted or the hunter? And do you find yourself rooting for this complex man, or secretly fearing for those around him?
When does justice cross the line and become something worse than the crime it is supposed to punish? Philip's story might answer that question for you. Then again, maybe you will have more questions than you had before, and very unsettling answers indeed.
The Ice Soldier: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to that perilous ground, reliving the terror of the war and confronting new dangers in "a narrative so strong in imagery and detail that the reader can almost feel the gusts of an Alpine blizzard" (Library Journal).
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Overview: PAUL WATKINS is thirty-one years old. In addition to being one of the best-reviewed new writers on the American literary scene, he is also one of the most colorful. The California-born son of Welsh parents, Watkins grew up on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, and was educated at Eton and Yale. His most recent book, Stand Before Your God, is a memoir about an American’s coming-of-age at a British boarding school. His widely praised first novel, Night Over Day Over Night, the story of a young SS soldier during the Battle of the Bulge, was published when its author was twenty-three, and was nominated for the Booker Prize. To research the book, Watkins hiked through the Ardennes forest, where the battle took place, and interviewed veterans of both sides. Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, which was awarded Britain’s Encore Prize for best second novel, reflects several seasons Watkins spent working on trawlers off the New England coast. For his third novel, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, Watkins learned to fly a biplane and spent months in the Moroccan Sahara. And before he wrote The Promise of Light, he lived in the Irish towns of Lahinch and Ennistymon and drew upon a vast body of historical literature in order to study the Irish independence movement from all angles.
Watkins lived and worked in the woods of northern Maine while researching Archangel, his sixth book. He makes his home near Princeton, New Jersey.
Genre: Fiction > Contemporary Fiction, Thrillers & Mystery
Archangel: Watkins, a gifted young novelist who stands head and shoulders above his more popular but less capable peers (e.g., Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, Douglas Coupland), most recently raised readers' eyebrows with his fascinating memoir, Stand Before Your God (LJ 11/15/93). In this return to fiction, the thinly veiled title character, Adam Gabriel, returns to his hometown in Maine to battle Jonah Mackenzie, a ruthless logging baron who is destroying the wilderness. Gabriel proves as single-minded as Mackenzie, however, and engages in dangerous "tree-spiking" (i.e., driving long nails into trees in order to discourage chainsaw-bearing loggers). When the dust clears, four men are dead. Unfortunately, the devices that worked so well in Watkins's other novels?idealistic, romantic characters; exotic settings; tight, affecting prose?fall flat here. Female characters in particular, most notably an unstable local woman known as "Mary the Clock," are poorly sketched. Archangel is not up to the author's usual standards, and unless Watkins has a following at your library you can pass on this one.?
The Promise of Light: It is 1921, and young Ben Sheridan's Irish-American father mysteriously dies in their small Rhode Island town. Determined to learn the truth about his family's cloudy past, he sets sail for Ireland, and quickly becomes involved in a struggle between soldiers of the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the brutal British troops. Amidst the lush and rugged Irish countryside, and the horrible violence unfolding across it, Ben must search for the truth of his identity, and the ties of his family's blood.
Little White Lies: Philip Richards is a man who appears to be everything he isn't. Well dressed, well spoken and successful by any measure, his world is changed overnight when his beautiful wife, Laura, dies unexpectedly. Lost and adrift, he finally decides to take charge of his life once again and strikes out on a completely different path, one that leads to murder and mayhem. But the strange things about all this is that Philip isn't slowed or intimated by these events. Instead he seems to thrive on them.
Is Philip all he appears to be, or is there a dark side that is worse than the terrible people he faces? Is he the hunted or the hunter? And do you find yourself rooting for this complex man, or secretly fearing for those around him?
When does justice cross the line and become something worse than the crime it is supposed to punish? Philip's story might answer that question for you. Then again, maybe you will have more questions than you had before, and very unsettling answers indeed.
The Ice Soldier: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to that perilous ground, reliving the terror of the war and confronting new dangers in "a narrative so strong in imagery and detail that the reader can almost feel the gusts of an Alpine blizzard" (Library Journal).
Download Instructions:
(Closed Filehost) https://hulkload.com/fx8wgt0hqade
https://drop.download/zszq2xc92pdl
