[eBook Announcement] Three Books by Vitae Bergman
PRESS RELEASE
Announcing Vitae Bergman's recent publications:
1 .Berkeley Tales: A Collection of Stories
First published in 1973, depicts the lives
of the counter-culture people at the close
of the Vietnam war.
http://www.lulu.com/content/5921
2. Open the River: Memoir of a Grieving Heart
The author's experience of loss
with the death of his son in 1990.
http://www.lulu.com/content/57791
3. AFGA: A Mystery Set in Harrisonburg
Meet Afga Somerset, former JMU student and one time promising poet, now a town character stuck in a cycle of inertia, who finds himself in the middle of a police investigation when his best friend is found dead. Beset with his own issues, the violent death of his friend adds the final complication to his life, which paradoxically helps him unravel his many predicaments. AFGA is a picaresque novel with serious as well as comic overtones.Announcing Vitae Bergman's recent publications:
1 .Berkeley Tales: A Collection of Stories
First published in 1973, depicts the lives
of the counter-culture people at the close
of the Vietnam war.
http://www.lulu.com/content/5921
2. Open the River: Memoir of a Grieving Heart
The author's experience of loss
with the death of his son in 1990.
http://www.lulu.com/content/57791
3. AFGA: A Mystery Set in Harrisonburg
http://www.lulu.com/content/58660
"A gorgeous novel," Michael Levin, author of "Settling the Score"
"...a fine command of the written language," Ellie Loveman/contributing writer, JMU's Student Newspaper, The Breeze
"This year, I'm totally besotted by Afga," Anne Fox, editor, Bay Books News
1 Comments:
I read AFGA, and found it very true to the kinds of people I knew in San Francisco in the late sixties and early seventies. Afga is a little outside of life, looking for meaning. The route can be bizarre, but there is always the contrast with "normalcy". At the end, you are left wondering if he is running to his epiphany - or from it.
Very well-written. You actually become involved with the character to the point of wanting to say, "Don't! You've been there! It won't work!" You know he isn't quite in control of his fate, and you pull for him.
C. D. Moulton
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