Bill Engleson

The Life of Gronsky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gilbert Gronsky has taken up writing late in life and decides in 2021 to spread his writerly wings and enter a three-day novel contest over the Labour Day Weekend. As he writes his 'novella,' a mystery, his life alternates between emerging mini-chapters, minor interruptions, his passion for the US Open tennis tournament, his lover, his friend, and, at one point, a shocker of a visitor in his garage. In November, Gronsky fashions a more complex crime novel set in post-war Canada, 1946-48. As he writes, he is occupied by a plethora of larger world actions including extreme weather events, COP 26, Haiti missionary kidnappings, love, food, and Covid. And, of course, tennis wherever it pops up on television. "The Life of Gronsky is a funny, engrossing, and compelling story about a character you'll remember long after you've finished this book. Masterfully weaving stories within stories, Bill Engleson takes readers on a memorable journey. The pages practically turned themselves." ---Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. "Bill Engleson's Gronsky labours over his novels, unspooling multiple mysteries as he struggles with his past. What can he count on besides tennis, and COP 26? Memories? Nope. His life is a Krapp's Last Layer Cake - disturbances infect the present and will surely distort his future. Forget about control; everywhere he looks there is slippage. He only has certainty over his fictions and meanwhile he's blowing in the wind, and so are we. Ultimately when we look at Gronsky, we're staring into a mirror." ---Stephen Miller, Canadian and American screenwriter, novelist, and actor based in Vancouver, B.C. "Any writer will sympathize with Gilbert Gronsky 's challenges with a three-day novel contest and National Novel Writing Month. If only his work wasn't interrupted by sports coverage, world events, issues with his neighbours, and the mystery of what happened to his own family. Bill Engleson's The Life of Gronsky is an entertaining romp, interspersed with thoughts on the world and excerpts of the crime fiction Gronsky is creating." ---Merrilee Robson, author of short crime fiction and Murder is Uncooperative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tellwell Talent
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780228888413
• ISBN-10: 0228888417
• Artikelnr.: 67530678

Autorenporträt

Bill Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, energetic novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, flash fictionist, and engaged community volunteer who lives on Denman Island, a small island located between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia.Previous to The Life of Gronsky, he had published one noirish novel, Like a Child to Home, which received an honourable mention at the inaugural 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards. In 2016, Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays entitled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul.Since the fall of 2020, deep into Covid's second wave, his poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including VIRL's Alone but Not Alone Poetry in Isolation (editor Jonathon Bigelow), Drift, Poems and Poets From the Comox Valley (editors Edwin Varney and Daniel J. Kirk), Victoria's Planet Earth's The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! (editor Sheila Martindale), the first and at least one subsequent edition of the Van Isle Poetry Collective (editor, April Hilland).He has a number of other writing projects in the hopper, including a prequel to his first novel entitled Drawn Towards the Sun. For more information, check his twitter, @billmelaterplea, and his occasionally updated website/blog: www.engleson.ca