Roberta M. Roy

Broschiertes Buch

Jolt: A Rural Noir Volume 1

Beschreibung

JOLT SURVIVAL TRILOGY The Jolt Survival Trilogy includes the winner of a Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award, Jolt: a rural noir, revised, and its sequels, Two Close and Home Again 2020. Book I - Jolt: a rural noir It is said that after a nuclear meltdown, if one can walk away, one will live. Jolt a rural noir tells the story of residents thirty or more miles from a meltdown who survive. Escaping the threat of radiation fallout causes many to flee. Estranged lovers Natalie and Thaw are among those in the mountain village who accommodate to the needs of the forced emigrants. Winter is coming. Radiation sickness, decontamination, and lack of food, housing, and proper sanitation threaten Newees and Townies alike. Epic in expanse, Jolt, a rural noir, revised, describes a community determined to survive. Extremely well-researched, informative, and poignant. Book II - Two Close: a story of survival The sequel to Jolt: a rural noir, Two Close: a story of survival follows the paths of the Matters family, Mary, Lou, and their sons, Jason and Marty. Separated by circumstances following terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, Mary, at home, recuperates from radiation sickness. Lou, brain injured in a dirty bomb explosion, recovers from amnesia and right-side brain damage. Their sons have fled and. unable to make contact with their parents, survive alone in the woods. Two Close is a tale of courage and the will to survive. Book III Home Again 2020 Home Again 2020, the sequel to Too Close, is the story of Jason, Marty, and their mother, Mary Matters, reunited in their home in Ariana. Right hemisphere brain injury has caused Lou Matters, the father, to suffer left side neglect and vision loss. The story of their individual struggles and efforts to heal are further complicated by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in which the search for new answers eludes a government that is itself overwhelmed. Home Again 2020 is the story of the search to heal in an increasingly compl

Autor

Roberta M Roy's book, "Jolt: a rural noir" medaled in the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Awards in Inspirational Fiction. Since then Roy has written it's sequel, "Two Close: a story of survival" and both books are now revised to synchronize their dates with the third book in the trilogy, "Home Again," which is anticipated for release in 2020. The ALVA Axiom Anthology of Author Interviews (ALVA Press 2014) highlights Roy's work as an editor interviewer and Straight from the Robin's Nest (2015) her work as an essayist. Roy's book "Slivers: Poems" by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry. Roy holds a B.A. in English from the State University College at Albany (SUNYA), an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Nebraska, and has done post Master's study at the University of Michigan. Roy is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist in the State of New York. She resides in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York State where she is the creative lead and owner operator of alvapressinc.com.

Produktdetails

• Jolt Survival Trilogy
• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781733834636
• ISBN-10: 173383463X
• Artikelnr.: 60981151