The Couloir
by Richard Manichello |
| Trade Paperback |
5 ½ x 8 ½ |
Fiction |
| Release date: February 2006 |
321 pp |
ISBN:1-933016-22-1 |
| |
|
|
|
$16.95 |
Your order will be processed by Blu Sky Media Group |
“The descent beckons…” The couloir beckons. That fateful
crag in the face of a mountain subsumes author Eddie Genell’s tortured
soul. Creativity and inspiration shut down without notice, crippling depression
after familial collapse, addictions, obsessions, hurtful memory, and the
loss of children in bitter divorce, all bury him in an avalanche of fear
and loneliness. Witness a man’s downward spiral, and fall, through
the destructive patterns of a poisoned past in search of his own renewal.
The restorative journey takes him back to 1985. It is Winter Carnival. Verbier is host to the World Cup Ski Races. The small resort of Val de Bagnes is not only brimming with the idle rich, but serves as Eddie’s haven from his own excesses. “The Gang,” Eddies’ gang of international expatriates, super-skiers, and entrepreneurs are all part of the celebratory and the dangerous. “They do nothing,” Eddie says, “…but they do it better than anyone I’ve ever known.”
The trip is also a reunion with lost love and his world is suddenly brightened by the possibility of a caring, healing love where drug use and intrigue are the norm in this world of societal excesses. |
