| 'Bittersweet' Contributor(s): Lindsay, P. D. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0994119496 ISBN-13: 9780994119490 Publisher: Writer's Choice OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 250 pages |
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| Publisher Description: BITTERSWEET Bryce Ackerman returns home from a business trip to Vienna expecting to marry his beloved Aim e. But she is pregnant. This is 1872 and Bryce is a Victorian gentleman who doesn't believe in sex before marriage. Aim e is distraught. So-called officers and gentlemen, on leave, visitors to her home, have been making a game of rape. They have been running a competition to see which regiment's junior officers could score the most sexual conquests, that is rape the most young women, in their own homes. Aim e, Bryce and their families carefully seek out the violated girls and women, offering aid and support, but it is a heart breaking task for the victims are socially disgraced and often 'put away' by their own families. Bryce, for personal reasons as well as an outraged sense of the injustice, attempts to chase down the officers. They have returned to their regiments in India. Bryce follows them intent on revenge for Aim e, and justice for all the victims, but it is no easy commission. The officers will do anything to escape retribution and Bryce has to survive in the exotic and erotic atmosphere of India. It is an assignment which tests his own sexuality and his ability to put personal vengeance on one side and secure justice for all. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lindsay, P. D. R.: - p.d.r. lindsay (no capitals please in tribute to a favourite poet, e. e. cummings) makes New Zealand home. Born in Ireland, brought up in Yorkshire, educated in England, Canada and New Zealand, writer p.d.r. lindsay is also Mrs Salmon, Ms Lindsay-Salmon and even for eight years of her ten years in Japan, Professor Lindsay-Salmon. This wide experience of different cultures colours her writing and keeps her travelling. p.d.r lindsay feels lost among the modern tech style of writing. She's passionate about words, feels the loss of people like Shakespeare, those who wrote the King James Bible, poets who made words dance, like Gerard Manley Hopkins. Where are they? p.d.r. has been trying to trim her style to modern tastes and fails BUT she has published over 100 short stories, 2 anthologies and three novels and is struggling to shape a fourth novel which will satisfy herself and the modern reader. She's thinks longingly of the days when she could write a poem or story or two in a lunch break. These days the muse takes longer. Something to do with age and cynicism? |