Big Jack Is Dead

By Harvey Smith

KIRKUS STAR WINNER - Named as one of the best indie novels of 2013 by Kirkus Review.Jack Hickman is an antisocial software exec who designs team-building applications in the late 1990s. Controlled and calculating, his world begins to splinter when he learns - in the middle of a corporate meeting - that his father has committed suicide. Returning home to the Gulf Coast, Jack struggles with a host of unresolved feelings as he buries the man he hated most. Interwoven throughout the novel, chapters set in the 1970s depict Jack as a boy, chronicling his relationships with a storm-tossed mother and a menacing father, living in the shadows of the petrochemical plants scattered along the Gulf Coast.The novel highlights the differences between life in California at the end of the Dot-Com era and life in blue collar Texas during the 1970s, contrasting Jack as a man and as a child, and showing how the people who bring us into the world shape us forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482563657
• ISBN13: 9781482563658
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 284 Pages