Better You Go Home
Watch for the LAUNCH DATE in OCTOBER 2013
A novel by Scott Driscoll.
Synopsis:
Better You Go Home, a literary novel that combines the amiable frankness of Charles Baxter’s Feast of Love with the slow-burning tension of Sandor Márai’s Embers, takes the reader to Prague shortly after the Velvet Revolution. Chico Lenoch, a Seattle attorney, wonders why his Czech father refuses to contact family left behind the Iron Curtain. Searching through his father’s attic after the Velvet Revolution, Chico discovers letters dated four decades earlier revealing the existence of a half-sister. Hoping to find his forgotten sister and unearth the secrets his father has buried all these years, he travels to the Czech Republic. There is self-interest behind Chico’s quest. Most urgently, he is nearing kidney failure and needs a donor organ. None of his relatives are a suitable match. Could his sister be a candidate? Chico also meets Milada, a beautiful doctor who helps him navigate the obstacles to finding his sister. While Chico idealizes his father’s homeland, Milada feels trapped. Is she really attracted to him, or is he a means of escape to the United States? Chico confronts a moral dilemma as well. If he broaches the subject of his need for a kidney, does he become complicit with his father and the Big Shots of that generation who’ve already robbed her of so much?
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Hi Scott – David the Webmaster at Elliott Bay, working to get your book added to the American Bookseller’s Association’s database. Can you let me know the following information?
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THANKS SO MUCH!
Hi David
ISBN: 978-1-60381-170-5 Trade Paperback
978-1-60381-171-2 (eBook)
Pub date: 10/01/2013
List price: $13.95
Binding: trade paperback
Page length: 222 pages
dimensions: 6″ wide by 9″ tall by 1/2″ thick
weight: to be determined(will let you know what I find out)
Hi Scott!:( getting your book on my kindle tonight!