Ea Luetkemeyer

Broschiertes Buch

Penitentiary Tales

A Love Story

Beschreibung

Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story recounts the escapades of Dean Davis, a thirty-something, educated, straight white male from the affluent community of Sausalito, in Marin County, California, who is sent to an Illinois prison dominated by a daunting, ethnically diverse population of inmates from the mean streets of Chicago. His wife Lucy and infant daughter Lola await on the outside. Lucy pleads that Dean not let the experience change him, that he be the same man when he gets out that he was when he went in. "I’ll be a ship in the night," he assures her. "Just passing through. When I walk out those gates in five years it will be as though I had never been there." But he doubts if this is true. How does he do his time? What challenges does he meet? How does the experience affect his social and political consciousness? How does it affect his marriage? It is, after all, a love story. Addressing issues of race and gender from an uncommon point of view, it is at once a serious inquiry into the minds and hearts of the marginalized and the oppressed, and a bit of a romp. Like Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, which celebrates the lives of the disenfranchised during the Great Depression without railing against social injustice, Penitentiary Tales: A Love story sheds light on the daily lives of its characters, and on their humanity no matter how obscured by circumstance. It will appeal to adventurous and intelligent readers of all persuasions who appreciate a literary walk on the wild side. EA Luetkemeyer spent four years of a ten year sentence in an Illinois State Prison in the eighties for possession of Marijuana, an experience he embraces and which informs much of his writing and his world-view.

Autor

A prolific short story writer, EA Luetkemeyer's fiction has appeared in the literary journals Sou'wester, Opium Magazine, Del Sol Review, Perversion Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Cerasus Magazine, Rhodora, Centrifictionist, and The ShabdAaweg Review. His flash fiction piece, "The Southwest Chief," was named a finalist in The Wild Atlantic Writing Awards, and his story "Bead by Bead," a finalist in the anthology Stories That Must be Told, a publication of Tulip Tree Press. He is the author of the memoir "The Book of Chuck," and the novels "Inside the Mind of Martin Mueller" and "Penitentiary Tales: a Love Story," a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. He has been a martial artist, a long distance runner, an outlaw, a fugitive, an inmate, a husband and father, and, by his own admission, sometimes a fool. Awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, in 2015, he lives and writes in the picturesque Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon where, with inspiration from his capricious Muse, Miranda, he is at work on his next novel, "The Life and Death of Louie Amato."For excerpts and reviews of his work, visit www.ealuetkemeyer.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Laughing Buddha Books
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780578581224
• ISBN-10: 0578581221
• Artikelnr.: 58194054