Five Seasons

By Shay McManus

I'm Matt Riley, and this is what happened when I met my millennial muse, Riley, who happens to share my name. I don't think either of us expected what would transpire between us when we laid eyes on each other that first day of our graduate class. Riley was only half my age at the time, so I couldn't have imagined she'd fall for me. But the fall was indeed a time for falling, and the young lady soon would be in the throes of her sexual awakening. I guess my age and experience were a benefit after all. Like some proverbial butterfly, though, I couldn't keep her, and she practically destroyed me. It's a good thing I have a strong sense of irony. ************************************************************** In Five Seasons, author Shay McManus explores the memoir as a literary form. Within this context, the story of the couple's passionate affair, from its real and pure inception, is chronicled through the maze of life events that unfurl before them. Their deep connection is encompassed by the span of seasons their love lasted. It's a very erotic romance, but not flowery or overly dramatic. It's a story for real people. And while it's tender and sweet, the sex is explicit but contextualized realistically. Universal male-female relationships, family dynamics, and unabashed humor form the background to this unordinary love story. Like Holden Caulfield, in Catcher In The Rye, the story's narrator is amusing, yet questioning, troubled, struggling, and brutally honest with himself. And, be it fair or not, no less hard on those around him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1697664679
• ISBN13: 9781697664676
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"