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South of Bixby Bridge
0Authors : Ryan Winfield
ISBN10 : 0615511600 ISBN13 : 9780615511603
Genres : Fiction,Contemporary,Drama,Romance,Realistic Fiction,Adult,Suspense,Dark,Literary Fiction
Language: English
Paperback, 299 pages
Published August 16th 2011 by Birch Paper Press
Description
From
Bestselling Author Ryan Winfield, a sexy and shocking literary debut.
What would you do if you weren't afraid? That's the question facing young Trevor Roberts as he's being discharged from drug rehab, sure that he's hit rock bottom with nowhere to go but up.
W......more
From
Bestselling Author Ryan Winfield, a sexy and shocking literary debut.
What would you do if you weren't afraid? That's the question facing young Trevor Roberts as he's being discharged from drug rehab, sure that he's hit rock bottom with nowhere to go but up.
With more twists than California's Highway 1, the intimate narrative follows a young man on a wild month-long ride to the dizzying, drunken heights of Napa Valley excess where he falls fast for his new boss's intoxicating wife and becomes entangled in a strange threesome affair. But things soon begin to unravel as Trevor is drawn into a secret world of sex and scandal, only to have his lust for success drag him down again through a phantasmagoria of hedonistic hell.
"Shocking and unapologetic",
barrels along with the "frenetic pace of a Hollywood blockbuster," delivering "poetic prose loaded with images". With gripping drama, witty dialogue, and sexy, jaw-dropping glimpses into the nouveau-riche underworld of California's wealthy elite, you won't be able to put this riveting new novel down. Buckle up and enjoy the read!(less)
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About the author(Ryan Winfield)
Ryan Winfield is a
bestselling American author whose novels have been translated into more than eight languages. He lives in Seattle.
If your book club or organization would like to arrange an appearance from Ryan, either in person or via Skype, please send him a private mess......more
Ryan Winfield is a
bestselling American author whose novels have been translated into more than eight languages. He lives in Seattle.
If your book club or organization would like to arrange an appearance from Ryan, either in person or via Skype, please send him a private message at
with your request.
From the author:
I hope you enjoy my books and I'd love to hear from you here or on
I've been asked why I write. I write because I remember.
I remember waking up to snow. Great buckets of it poured from the gray skies and blanketing everything in quiet white. I remember racing to dress, struggling with my boots. "Here, don't forget your mittens." I remember the soft thump of that first footstep in the cold and vi
Ryan Winfield is a
bestselling American author whose novels have been translated into more than eight languages. He lives in Seattle.
If your book club or organization would like to arrange an appearance from Ryan, either in person or via Skype, please send him a private message at
with your request.
From the author:
I hope you enjoy my books and I'd love to hear from you here or on
I've been asked why I write. I write because I remember.
I remember waking up to snow. Great buckets of it poured from the gray skies and blanketing everything in quiet white. I remember racing to dress, struggling with my boots. "Here, don't forget your mittens." I remember the soft thump of that first footstep in the cold and virgin powder, the tracks looking back, foghorns blowing on the mist-covered bay. I feel the canvas paper bag cutting into my shoulders, the weight of Sunday's headlines heavy on my mind. I see the trees bowed with armloads of white, as if to curtsey my passing. I remember rubber bands and ink stained hands. A car spun sideways in a ditch. Always a car. Then barking dogs, a distant chainsaw. Freckles throwing fastballs that hurt for the cold of them on my neck. I remember snowmen, and igloos, and icy trails through the white and wondrous woods. And I remember sweet Mrs. Johnson waiting at her door. The smell of Avon powder, her thin smile, an envelope pressed into my palm--ten dollars and a peppermint candy cane thank you. Evening now. I remember running downtown--Salvation Army bells, white lights strung in sidewalk trees, bundled shoppers bent against the wind. I remember the heavy door, the warmth, the wood. The bookstore! Smells of paper and leather and ink. Walls of worlds bound and waiting for me to read.
Nothing has affected me as much as reading has. Dickens, Tolkien, and Lewis raised me. And while I've walked through my own hell, made my own mistakes, and found my own redemption, always there have been books. Books to help me escape, books to teach me when to stay and fight, books to help me see where I've been wrong and where I've been right.
I write because I remember. And I write because I still dream. (less)