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Kirk Curnutt
Dear Librarian, I had several goals in writing BREATHING OUT THE GHOST. I wanted to capture the fading farms of my Indiana ancestors and the Michigan of my own youth. I wanted to create complex characters and set them spinning in a taut thriller plot involving missing children. I wanted each character to speak in a different style, and I wanted to write rich, poetic sentences like my literary hero, F. Scott Fitzgerald: the kind of sentences that wring catharsis out of loss. More importantly, I wanted to capture what I call the brokenness of being human. I wanted my flawed hero, Colin St. Claire, to confront the vanity of his suffering. I wanted my equally flawed heroine, Beverly "Sis" Pruitt, to rebel against the pieties of coping and closure. I wanted to examine how we as people learn to live with griefs and grievances we can't overcome. Most of all, I wanted to tell a good story. I hope you'll visit www.kirkcurnutt.com and email me at kirk.curnutt@gmail.com to let me know if you think I have. Thank you, Kirk Curnutt
Breathing Out the Ghost / Kirk Curnutt / River City Publishing / Paperback; 329 Pages
Price: $24.95 / ISBN: 978-1579660703 / Published: February, 2008 Kirk Curnutt is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view his reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |