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Wayne Courtois
(Writer)
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A Pardoner’s Tale (Future release)
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Tales My Body Told Me (Future release)
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A Report From Winter
(2009)
Report from Winter is a
death-in-the-family story, a love story, and a meditation on the meaning of
“winter”—as a season and as a metaphor for family relationships.
It’s January 1998, and southern Maine is recovering from one of the worst ice
storms in history. Into this unforgiving environment comes the author, flying
“home” from Kansas City after a ten-year absence. It’s a trip that he is
forced to make: his mother, Jennie, is dying of cancer and could pass at any
time. She is receiving excellent care in a nursing home, but can no
longer communicate. Wayne and his mother have had a difficult history, and
finding a way to reconnect with her is as difficult as trying to reconnect
with the rest of his immediate family—a feisty aunt and an emotionally remote
older brother.
Before two days of his visit have elapsed, Wayne makes an SOS call to Ralph,
his longtime partner. Ralph boards a plane to Portland to help Wayne through
this difficult time. It’s Ralph’s first exposure to a Maine winter, and to
Wayne’s family as well. The contrast between their relationship and
dysfunctional family bonds is as sharp as the wind sweeping in from the sea.
Stubbornly unsentimental, A Report from Winter weaves childhood
memories of winter with the harsh realities of living in a family where
there’s not enough love to go around. The memoir is a tribute to
hard-won relationships built on mutual trust and understanding, defying an
uncaring world.
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My Name Is Rand
(2004)
“Mapped out on a playing field of ticklish male flesh,
My Name Is Rand follows a young man on his search for the ultimate erotic
adventure. Betrayed by his own skin into a helplessly eroticized state, he
becomes a captive of The Compound, a bizarre torture camp where men practice
extreme tickling. After several near-death experiences, he stumbles upon a
hiding place where a band of desperate men plot escape while taking physical
solace in each other. Sweatily detailed in its depiction of men driven over
the edge, this nightmarish novel is a bondage epic, a horror comic, and a
totally original speculation on the nature of time and consciousness.”
"My Name Is Rand does for wriggling, unrelenting,
tickling fingers what The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did for chainsaws." --
Ian Philips, author of Satyriasis and See
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