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James Raymond Wren, one of the city's most successful architects, wants desperately to escape the urban hell of Los Angeles and return to his roots. Back to ties that have been long forgotten and lost, buried away somewhere deep in the South. Returning to a place he's from, but never really known. To a region he believes is the answer for all of his and his young family's woes. Coming back to a town that eventually he will discover, contains things he has unwittingly ignored. Suppressed realities that will haunt and torture, ultimately destroying all that he knows. The story is filled with vivid images of the South's ignominious past. All rendered in Technicolor by a village of eerily seductive inhabitants. Townsfolk that include an ancient and corrupted chief of police, along with his childhood friend the local pedophile priest. The last glimmering ghost of the Ku Klux Klan joins in as these and many more of the town's uncannily constructed characters move this story achingly toward its macabre, stormy climax. But Backward's real surprise is the town itself, and the spooky old house it conceals. An enormous antebellum wreck bequeathed to the church. At one time part of the underground railroad. Against the backdrop of James' nightmares the truth is finally revealed. The reason for his family's abrupt dislocation. Knowledge that will forever change the course of his life, along with the town's uncertain future.
About the Author: R. Michael Walden is an award-winning architect whose career encompasses many different design disciplines, including architecture, interiors, graphics and CGI, the latter for both cinema and television. Michael has taught courses in drawing and sketching at UCLA's Extension for the Visual Arts and now, when time allows, he enjoys writing feature-length scripts, short stories and novels. Backward is the first installment in a triptych of stories, all gothic, set deep in the south, and all taking place during the turbulent decades of the 1950s and 60s. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480126213
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 434
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: New Tales from the Old South #1
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1480126217
  • Publisher Date: 04 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr


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