Waterbury Winter
Linda Stewart Henley
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Barnaby Brown has had enough of freezing winters, insurmountable debt, a dead-end job, and his solitary life as a young widower with no one but his beloved parrot Popsicle. He yearns to move to California and reawaken his long-lost early life as an artist. But new troubles come in threes. His ancient car crashes into a snowbank. Popsicle escapes through a window carelessly left open. A New York gallery owner offers to represent Barnaby’s paintings—but is he on the up-and-up? All of it serves to shock Barnaby into confronting how low he has sunk, and he vows—again and again—to change. He has a few obstacles, starting with his heavy drinking and long-term neglect of his ancestral home. As he takes steps toward a better life, he re-discovers the value of old friendships and latent talents seen in new light, and finds the courage to consider a second chance at love. Rejoining the mainstream of life presents several startling mysteries he must unravel, with a few mortifying but enlightening stumbles.
A heart-warming novel about ordinary people reclaiming their dormant potential, Waterbury Winter celebrates the restorative value of art and the joy to be found in keeping promises.
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<b>2022 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Cross Genre Fiction<br>2022 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Fiction (General)<br>2022 Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist in General Fiction<br> 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: General<br> 2021 CIBA Mark Twain Book Awards Finalist</b> <br> <br> “A reflective, witty, and fun story that elegantly crosses genres and addresses intriguing themes.” <br> <b>—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <br> <br>“...a page-turner. I found I could not put it down until I had reached the end. It makes you think about how you are handling your life and if you are stagnating because you are too afraid to take a chance. I enjoyed reading this book from the first page to the last and found the ending the best, due to the fact that I had started rooting early for the main characters” <br> <b>—<i>Readers'
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Human kindness, Online art theft, Reinvention story, Second chances, Friendship story, Creative expression, Alcohol addiction recovery, Scamming, Yeats, Histor, Self-improvement, Aspiring artist