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And now a novella - our next title

12/21/2013

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We're very pleased to announce our next title. A Man from the Sky by Danny Wynn. Set in the mountains of Mallorca, it's been called "a thinking person's adventure story."

What's a novella? It's a work of fiction that's longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

We've always been fans of the novellas by Andre Dubus. But
straight from Wikipedia (with links included), here are some of the other famous ones:
  • J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country
  • John W. Campbell's Who Goes There?
  • Jack London's The Call of the Wild
  • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
  • George Orwell's Animal Farm
  • Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
  • Isaac Asimov's Nightfall
  • Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor
  • Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Giannina Braschi's Intimate Diary of Solitude in "Empire of Dreams"
  • Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
  • Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
  • H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus
  • Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans
  • Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
  • Joyce Carol Oates's Black Water
  • Stephen King's Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
  • Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer.
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Violins of Saint-Jacques
  • Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart
  • Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives
  • Stephen King's The Mist
  • Voltaire's Candide
  • Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince"
  • Colette's Cheri
So it looks like Man from the Sky will be joining a long and distinguished list in a literary form that may be just right for today's readers. Long enough to get you through that 3-hour hold over in Atlanta, but short enough so you won't miss you flight.

More details coming soon.
Cover designed by Alan Pranke amp13
Cover photo by Dana Wynn

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