Sallowsfield: A Novel Volume 7

By Cliff Hudder

Wyatt W. Sallow, MBA--poet, business ethics professor, and coach of the 8th ranked collegiate chess team in East Texas--travels to the heart of northern England to trace his family origins in mundane Sallowsfield, only to find his supposed ancestry a mirage. He does have a real past, however: one that stalks him across the green hillsides in echoes of his catastrophic marriage, the lingering shadow of a lost child, and--there, in person, inexplicably emerging from the town's faux-Victorian train station--"X," the enigmatic object of his unrequited passion and a figure as perplexing as an algebraic variable. On his eight-day tour/pilgrimage/mock epic journey, Wyatt pursues the specter of his lost love and crosses paths with the citizens of this down-at-its-heels market town as they struggle to grasp the all-consuming obsessions, ghosts, and X-factors that confound their days. Thought-provoking yet dryly humorous, Sallowsfield weaves diverse elements into a story both light-hearted and philosophical, exploring along the way universal human touchstones of obsession, ruined love and the inexplicable mysteries that shape our lives.

Part of The Sabine Series in Literature

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680033573
• ISBN13: 9781680033571
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"