THE BOY IN THE RED BOAT by Michael Seirton

THE BOY IN THE RED BOAT by Michael Seirton

Dina's gone. She left a note, she left her plants, and she left what her husband, Roal, thought was her entire world. Nothing remained but some frozen dinners and the mysterious last line of her final message: I do love you ever Dina.

Professor Roal Bowman, best known in the sleepy college town of Braddock as a fake Zen master who used to pretend to be Native American and never lived up to his potential, by no means saw it coming. How could he have guessed that his wife would run away to help the famous Winter Patent, a man who had literally lived with wolves, on a grand project to embrace the consciousness of trees? He thought Dina had been happy. But the more Roal digs, the more he realizes that he never truly knew or understood his wife, that he never really listened, and that now that Dina has disappeared, he must become something more--something real--if he hopes to get her back. And he'll have to do it quickly: he's not the only one who wants to find Dina and Winter.

The Chief of Rally Tree unfolds around Roal's fumbling, poignant, darkly hilarious awakening to adventure and loss as he watches his life gain focus only once he understands how it might look on the evening news. Jennifer Boyden explores in poetic prose the essential questions about what identity is when it is open for collective definition, the effects of looking to media for structure and meaning, the pull toward eco-consciousness, and what our grand moment of action reveals about who we hope to become, even as we remain open to the surprise of how.

Michael Seirton was born into a working class background in Derby and left school at fifteen with no qualifications. He got his first break as a student at The Derby Playhouse, taking over as Stage Designer two years later. Later he became the Designer at The Castle Theatre, Farnham. His second break came at Pinewood Studios from where he progressed from Art Department assistant to Decorator on the feature film 'Agatha.' His credits include 'Reds' - Nominated for an Academy Award and 'Ghandi' - for which he won an Oscar, 'Cry Freedom', 'The Green Mile' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Michael has written four other novels. He has also written and illustrated - 'The Bear's Adventure Books'.

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ISBN 13	9780993395758
ISBN 10	0993395759
Title	THE BOY IN THE RED BOAT
Author	Michael Seirton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	STA Books
Year published	2018-07-05
Number of pages	357
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