Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3 by Rose, Richard L.

Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461157731)

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Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3 by Rose, Richard L.

Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3

$13.70
Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3 by Rose, Richard L.

Frameshifts: Parts 2 and 3

$13.70
Format: Paperback
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Note that this novel is divided into two volumes. In the second half of FRAMESHIFTS, Professor Hank Randall discovers that one of his former students, Avery Crawley, in a bizarre interpretation of his classroom lessons, has founded a cult using genetic engineering. After horrific encounters with disease and a tornado, Randall begins to change his mind about Crawley's utopia. The stories of FRAMESHIFTS portray an imaginary region of Northern Virginia from the present time to the next century. A novel made of eight stories of different genres, the characters include small-time politicians, murder investigators, teachers, students, bullies and their victims, religious extremists, grieving lovers, special weapons officers, and technocratic visionaries who work against time to prepare for the environmental and social consequences of nonsustainable consumption and climate change. FRAMESHIFTS is a threnody for special people and places, a meditation upon loss and transience. Because there is no singular path through the work of grief, many kinds of loss are considered. Although the genres shift from mystery to suspense, to science fiction and poems, the characters continue through the eight stories--each of their paths a unique response to loss.

Author: Richard L. Rose
ISBN-10: 1461157730
ISBN-13: 9781461157731
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2011
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d
By Richard L. Rose
By Richard L. Rose
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Sometimes it's an advantage not to be an expert. Richard Rose's brief experiences as soldier and biological researcher, and longer experiences as teacher, supervisor, professor and composer, form the basis for the stories and poems of FRAMESHIFTS, a novel made of eight linked stories about the imaginary towns along the Pawmack River in Northern Virginia. FRAMESHIFTS is about choosing a familiar expertise or shifting one's frame of reference as the situation demands--as in a murder investigation, nuclear incident, suspicious suicide, bioethical dilemma, or the flooding of the eastern Seaboard. No expert on any of these matters, Rose is expert on his imaginary and current residents of Virginia--even after it is no longer Virginia.

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