Bøger af Barry Grills

FIVE MONTHS OF SOLITUDE on a small island. She's taking a break from her clinging boyfriend and her past career in insurance; he's writing a book of political essays. His cottage is humble; hers, not so much. She'll soon be launching a new music school; he's working his way to the Rockies. They meet walking their dogs. Narrated from three distinct perspectives--his, hers, and conventional society's--An Ecstasy is Barry Grills's most existential love story yet: provocative, thoughtful, and fun.

Oblivion (noun): The condition of being entirely forgotten. Richard Braddock, family man, corporate vice-president, lapsed journalist, encounters Derek Cavanaugh on the street outside his workplace one day. Derek, a lawyer and once his best friend, is now homeless. When Richard offers assistance he is rejected. As their friendship is renewed on the corner of an intersection in a major city, economic inequities and all, Richard begins to develop a rash. Is he allergic to work? His life? Or Derek's refusal of help? And why does he keep "zoning out"? What's the strange, toneless mantra he "hears" all day: EVERYTHING JUST LIVES HERE? Is he going crazy? Can he hang on? Does he even want to? Then his teenaged son, Kevin, mentions on Facebook that he is hearing it too: EVERYTHING JUST LIVES HERE. And Richard begins to see the light...

This is the story of Barry and Lupus. Barry, an exhausted newspaper owner physically and economically on the ropes, meets Lupus, a wolf-German Shepherd cross, at an animal shelter. Despite a nagging belief that he cannot take responsibility for anything or anyone else, Barry rescues Lupus and takes him home.