Please Request Query Feedback: Literary/Avant-Garde
Posted: October 15th, 2012, 1:02 pm
Dear Agent:
At the age of six, Edward sees his father shot through the head. Nine years later, he meets his first love. Sarah’s father shares her bed. Edward’s own dad is dead. They spend summer nights losing themselves in a field.
In a society where assassination is legal, one man is the casualty of an angry wife. The other man is a casualty of his daughter’s eighteenth birthday.
Except that Sarah’s father skipped town before she turned eighteen.
Years later, Edward meets Irene—the woman whose brothers contract hits. Irene is the innocent child likeness to what Sarah should have been and never was, and Edward trails her unsullied, porcelain-white physique to her haven, her love, the world of brothers. Bête noires of his chimaera dreams gone Gucci, the brothers are cultured. Shockingly attractive. Swaddled in blind love for Irene and the twisted Zen of her luxury model brothers, Edward finds himself relenting to the elder brother’s gradual erosion of Edward’s panzer-plated psyche, and Earl gradually forces a degree of intimacy Edward is failing to attain with Irene.
It’s a triangle that increasingly spins out of control as Edward locates Sarah’s father, tells Sarah the location but begs her to abstain from the hit. He pleads with her, face her father, don’t have him hit. Edward loves Irene, fractures painfully at Earl’s black-eyed scrutiny, needs beyond reason to save Sarah. Needs to save himself. Desperate to convince others to pursue the unconventional—
Don’t do the kill.
When killing is so easy, why consider the alternative?
Redemption by Proxy is a work that bridges the genres of literary and avant garde. It is complete at 96,000 words. The book is a deeply psychological, character-driven novel that explores the fallout of violence and trauma. My personal experience, coupled to an M.S in Neuroscience, gives me a deeply insightful and knowledgeable base from which to pursue this in-depth, highly relevant thought experiment related to emotional survival in an imperfect world.
Regards,
At the age of six, Edward sees his father shot through the head. Nine years later, he meets his first love. Sarah’s father shares her bed. Edward’s own dad is dead. They spend summer nights losing themselves in a field.
In a society where assassination is legal, one man is the casualty of an angry wife. The other man is a casualty of his daughter’s eighteenth birthday.
Except that Sarah’s father skipped town before she turned eighteen.
Years later, Edward meets Irene—the woman whose brothers contract hits. Irene is the innocent child likeness to what Sarah should have been and never was, and Edward trails her unsullied, porcelain-white physique to her haven, her love, the world of brothers. Bête noires of his chimaera dreams gone Gucci, the brothers are cultured. Shockingly attractive. Swaddled in blind love for Irene and the twisted Zen of her luxury model brothers, Edward finds himself relenting to the elder brother’s gradual erosion of Edward’s panzer-plated psyche, and Earl gradually forces a degree of intimacy Edward is failing to attain with Irene.
It’s a triangle that increasingly spins out of control as Edward locates Sarah’s father, tells Sarah the location but begs her to abstain from the hit. He pleads with her, face her father, don’t have him hit. Edward loves Irene, fractures painfully at Earl’s black-eyed scrutiny, needs beyond reason to save Sarah. Needs to save himself. Desperate to convince others to pursue the unconventional—
Don’t do the kill.
When killing is so easy, why consider the alternative?
Redemption by Proxy is a work that bridges the genres of literary and avant garde. It is complete at 96,000 words. The book is a deeply psychological, character-driven novel that explores the fallout of violence and trauma. My personal experience, coupled to an M.S in Neuroscience, gives me a deeply insightful and knowledgeable base from which to pursue this in-depth, highly relevant thought experiment related to emotional survival in an imperfect world.
Regards,
