Process » Books http://parkersnyder.com the making of a novel Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:34:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Works in Process http://parkersnyder.com/2010/03/31/works-in-process/ http://parkersnyder.com/2010/03/31/works-in-process/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:20:30 +0000 Parker http://parkersnyder.com/?p=96 My first novel is an historical epic about a research scientist who comes face to face with the victim of his atomic creation. THE GEISHA’S DAUGHTER (unpublished MS) is set in the calendar year following World War II. A story about suffering, I traveled to research the novel in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Los Alamos and Southern France–all place settings in the story. Six months living in an artist’s residence in Argentina allowed me to finish.

The main duty of the novelist is to write another one. Is that right?

My second novel returns to my Appalachian roots. CLOVERLEAF (unpublished MS) is a social satire about an 18 year old boy coming of age in contemporary America. It’s set on the lonely edge of a rust-belt suburb. My hero’s opera-singing mother dies and his tort-law practicing father takes off to renew his youth. The impetuous hero must grow up or self destruct, but wades knee-deep into a national mystery driven on by the creative energy in a young love.
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