Back cover blurb for “An
Inverted Sort of Prayer” by Chris F. Needham: “Either way, there were times
when you had to fight, no matter what the stakes. Men fight—there is a part of
man that needs to fight—and to ignore that fact is to turn your back on what
might very well prove your undoing.”
Novel description: Cut loose at
the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by
liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel
of a celebrated politician’s son is in fact Billy’s father’s own, taken word
for word from the original published, and promptly forgotten, some forty years
before.
Allowing the ruse to continue,
and in an effort to distance himself from his violent past, Purdy embarks upon
an exotic, oftentimes comical adventure in an attempt to reinvent himself in what
he envisions to be a more cerebral and civilized image, in a world he has never
fully been a part of, or developed the necessary tools to properly inhabit.
Yearning for connection of any kind, yet seemingly unable to sustain it for any
length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and
ultimate futility behind this quintessential Canadian dream. To find out more
about the author, you must visit our Chris F. Needham
page.
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