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Jun 20

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Playground Zero by Sarah Relyea: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 13, 2020
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Playground Zero by Sarah RelyeaPlayground Zero by Sarah Relyea


Thanks to Stephanie Barko, I am giving away one print copy to the U.S. only ebook copy to Canada Only of ‘Playground Zero’ by Sarah Relyea.

Description Playground Zero by Sarah Relyea


1968. It’s the season of siren songs and loosened bonds—as well as war, campaign slogans, and assassination. When the Rayson family leaves the East Coast for the gathering anarchy of Berkeley, twelve-year-old Alice embraces the moment in a hippie paradise that’s fast becoming a cultural ground zero. As her family and school fade away in a tear gas fog, the 1960s counterculture brings ambiguous freedom.

Guided only by a child’s-eye view in a tumultuous era, Alice could become another casualty—or she could come through to her new family, her developing life. But first, she must find her way in a world where the street signs hang backward and there’s a bootleg candy called Orange Sunshine.

Praise Playground Zero by Sarah Relyea


Semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2018 Big Moose Prize.

“An eerily compelling déjà vu of the free, wild, and jeopardy-ridden kid scene in late-1960s Berkeley. Uncanny and powerful.”- Charles Degelman, Editor, Harvard Square Editions

“Like a trip through the Looking Glass, Sarah Relyea’s engrossing debut novel takes you by the hand back to the sixties, where social rules were being challenged and political upheaval was the norm. Relyea tells the absorbing story of twelve-year-old Alice and her family through a series of narrators as they each experience the kaleidoscope streets of Berkeley. But she saves her most lyrical and beautiful language for the disintegration Alice sees and the heartbreak she experiences.”- Patricia Hurtado, Brooklyn writer and journalist with Bloomberg News

About Sarah RelyeaPlayground Zero by Sarah Relyea


Born in Washington, D.C., Sarah Relyea left the Berkeley counterculture at age thirteen and processed its effects as a teenager in suburban Los Angeles. She would soon swap California’s psychedelic scene to study English literature at Harvard. Sarah is the author of Playground Zero: A Novel and Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin.

She remains bicoastal, living in Brooklyn and spending time on the Left Coast.

Website: https://sarahrelyea.com/

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Jan 20

22

Born Slippy by Tom Lutz: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 22, 2020
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Born Slippy by Tom LutzBorn Slippy by Tom Lutz


Thanks to Alice of Coriolis Company, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Born Slippy’ by Tom Lutz.

Description Born Slippy by Tom Lutz


A globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity.

“Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.”

Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry’s wife, and things go from bad to worse.

Combining the best elements of literary thriller, noir and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.

Praise Born Slippy by Tom Lutz


“What a pleasure, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day– a gleeful, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market, while the older Frank, his boss, is a man who should know better, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis, if a place can be cleared there.” — Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

“Born Slippy is a whip-smart, whirlwind novel of noir and adventure, humor and horror, cynicism and romance. Lutz’s sterling prose and love of literature light up this unique page-turner about the friendship between a man who would be good and the amoral, magnetic narcissist who comes to dominate his life story.” — Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay

“An entertaining neo-noir about the wages of greed.” — Kirkus Reviews

About Tom LutzBorn Slippy by Tom Lutz


Tom Lutz is a writer of books, articles, and screenplays, the founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is now Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside. His books include American Book Award winner Doing Nothing, New York Times notable books Crying and American Nervousness, 1903, the travel books And the Monkey Learned Nothing and Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World, and coming on January 14, 2020, Born Slippy: A Novel.

He has written for television and film, and appeared in scores of national and international newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and edited collections. He is working with a Los Angeles-based production company on a television show set in the 1920s, is finishing a third collection of travel pieces, a book on the 1920s (The Modern Surface), and is in the early stages of a book on global conflict along the aridity line.

Website: www.tomlutzwriter.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomLutz22

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Oct 16

1

Worst Generation by Dan P. Greaney: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on October 1, 2016
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Worst Generation by Dan P. GreaneyWorst Generation by Dan P. Greaney


Thanks to Maria Moloney of Roundfire Books, I am giving away one print copy of Worst Generation by Dan P. Greaney

Description of Worst Generation by Dan P. Greaney


The Worst Generation is character Jenny Alhouse s indictment of her parents contributions to the contemporary world, their generational short-sighted and selfish degradation of economic and environmental well-being.

Her recounting of childhood shows much she is thankful for – a stable, caring home, times kayaking with her father, family trips, a quality education, the benefits of prosperity. But she tells the story from her adulthood, and includes the things she could not see as a child: the economic and environmental plundering and inconsideration imbedded in her upbringing that leave her world unstable, uncivil, and unsafe.

About Dan P. GreaneyWorst Generation by Dan P. Greaney


Dan P. Greaney has worked in education and the outdoors since his youth.  Influences on him include a degree in English from Stanford, a teaching credential through UC, Davis, and years of working with youth in the classroom through outdoor science schools, summer camps, and the National Park Service.  Now he works in university outreach and leads walks and writes for his local Audubon.  He lives in northern California with his wife, a school-teacher.

Giveaway of Worst Generation by Dan P. Greaney


This giveaway open to Canada, Europe, and the U.S. only and ends on October 14, 2016 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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