...if i should die before i wake - Softcover

Ayala, E L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475009542 ISBN 13: 9781475009545

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Expanding on the story of a minor character from one of his previous novels, Will You Be Made Whole, Ayala explores the tragic consequences of people living their lives as they assume others would have them live as opposed to whom they really are. In a classic Down Low scenario, Brian Edwards has his career, home life and reputation torn asunder as he surrenders to the advances of the teenage Christian Egan. The outcome of their affair nearly costs both of these characters their lives as well.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Ayala is a multi-faceted writer, director, author, actor, singer, and producer. His writing and directorial credits include Restoration, Will You Be Made Whole, The Women and Strange Fruit. He has authored five books; Restoration, Will You Be Made Whole, Alabaster Box...Two Women One Struggle, ...if i should die before i wake...and the up coming ...an issue of blood. In 2011 he penned the screenplay for the film Sunday Morning Rapture produced by End Touch Movies.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Nolan's first novel is ambitious indeed: she frames the story of teenage Chana's survival in the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz with a second story, about a young neo-Nazi who--after a motorcycle accident from which her vicious boyfriend escapes unscathed--is in the intensive care unit where Chana is dying half a century later. Also near death, Hilary relives Chana's ordeal and eventually recovers to carry on Chana's role as Holocaust witness. There are some real strengths here: Chana's experiences--losing her family, one by one; escaping Lodz with her grandmother only to be jailed, tortured, identified as a Jew, and sent to the concentration camp; brutal conditions, desperate survival techniques, and alliances and betrayals among Jewish inmates; the degradation of playing the violin for the Nazis in order to survive--are evidently selected in order to depict a range of horrors; but they're also graphically and tellingly portrayed. Hilary is less convincing: her troubled past is too briefly sketched to make a firm basis for her almost sensationalized fanaticism, while her change of heart doesn't develop; it simply emerges full-blown. Still, juxtaposing the virulent paranoia of present-day skinheads with their forebears' atrocities is a bold basis for a novel; if some of the transitions here are a bit awkward, the book as a whole is deeply felt and often compelling. (Fiction. 12+) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1475009542
• ISBN 13: 9781475009545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318