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Sing, Ronnie Blue, a novel by Gary D. Wilson, $19.95 191 pp, 6x9,
ISBN 13: 978-09792091-7-8
Praise for Sing, Ronnie Blue
"With this debut, readers
reading him for the first time will find out what I've known for 20 years, that Wilson is one of the best fiction writers
around"--Stephen Dixon
Gary D. Wilson's style is so taut, his lyrical language so precise and seductive, we
can't believe what's cracking open before us: two men's lives, fused and fraught, brought together again, by chance on the
Fourth of July. Sing, Ronnie Blue begins with an early morning bedevilment by firecrackers; it ends with an inferno of historic
entanglements. Reading this novel, I had to remind myself to breathe, and when I did, my exhalation was a feeble thanks that
I've been spared the unforeseeable consequences of my own intoxicating and half-cocked choices. So far."
--Jeanine Hathaway |
About SING, RONNIE BLUE
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Gary D. Wilson’s much-awaited debut novel—set in Bartlett’s Junction, Kansas, “An All-American City”
and proud sponsor of the state’s largest 4th of July fireworks display—details the lives of its two main characters,
Ronnie Blue, son of a local junk yard owner, and John Klein, son of the president of the town’s only bank, from their
high school friendship and subsequent drifting apart to their fateful re-engagement five years later during an Independence
Day celebration in their hometown that leaves one of the men murdered and the other eventually hounded to death.
An intensely moving story, Wilson’s novel takes a long and honest look at the economic and class divisions in our society
that produce people such as Ronnie Blue, perhaps the most sympathetic character to appear in fiction since Forrest Gump.
Wilson’s depth of character, coupled with a sophisticated style and poetic wordplay that calls to mind THE GREAT GATSBY,
makes SING, RONNIE BLUE a book that should appeal to a broad and appreciative audience.
About Gary D. Wilson
Gary D. Wilson is a native Kansan now living in Chicago. He is author of dozens of short fiction pieces that have appeared
in such publications as Glimmer Train, Witness, Quarterly West, The William and Mary Review, and
Kansas Quarterly, among others. This is his first published novel. Wilson holds an MFA degree from Bowling Green
State University and has taught fiction writing at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago. He is married
and has two sons.
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Contact: Christopher D. White: chrispoet@gmail.com (330) 622-2928
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