Fire in Winter: Proustian Walks

By John Mooers

FIRE IN WINTER is a quartet of novels written in the classic tradition of Greek Tragedy; it is the story of a flawed man fighting against his fate. It is a study of the human spirit confronting and transcending the human condition. In PROUSTIAN WALKS, the second of the FIRE IN WINTER quartet, Grandpa, alone, walks around his house waiting for others to wake up. Deeply haunted by the death of his brother, his father, his wife, and the day that he touched his own death, he has lost that joy of life he once so cherished. Different rooms invoke different memories like jigsaw pieces creating the puzzle that is his life. But in memories of others he finds the strength: his sister writing her endless novel; his clock maker daughter he cannot understand; his fragile grandson he takes under his wing; the swirl of both living and remembered life as he walks around the town and environs. What is lost is recaptured. Throughout the entire FIRE IN WINTER quartet the real-time plot is very simple and conforms to the classic unities of time, place and action. The work invokes a central place, similar to a Monterey of Steinbeck or a Yoknapatawpha of Faulkner, however a intricate arabesque of interconnected stories and multilevel subplots weaving around the main plotline gives the novels great depth and a developing momentum. This novel has wide appeal. Being a complex literary novel in the tradition of a Dante or a James Joyce, it is also a simply told story: the prose and story will entertain all types of readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988648660
• ISBN13: 9780988648661
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"