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Love Straddle is a complete manuscript from published author Martin Knox. Martin has now self published but publishers are welcome to contact the author to discuss second edition publication of this new novel. To access any information about the novel please go to the Contents page and click on the relevant document attachment.
LOVE STRADDLE
BOOK BLURB – LOVE STRADDLE
Selwyn is in love and vulnerable. He puts the girl he loves in a straddle with another girl friend, to reduce his exposure…in theory… but it all goes tragically wrong.
Prolific writer M.P. Knox has released his second novel Love Straddle – a fiction story that captures the mood of the 1960s, the era of the Cold War, the youth revolution, hippies and women’s liberation. The author has created a unique, unusual hero with flaws, quirkiness and emotions he struggles to express. Selwyn is a sexual version of the asexual Sheldon character in the sitcom, ‘The Big Bang Theory’, not unlike Don Tillman in ‘The Rosie Project’ and Doc Martin in the BBC TV series. Selwyn lives by theories and over-thinking when others expect understanding, this sometimes make him appears emotionally cold; at other times charming. Readers can diagnose Selwyn’s behaviour, decades before his unusual behaviour is labelled.
“…vast in scope, scintillating in the brilliance of its conception and staggering in the creation of its hero.” – Ian Lipke, Media Culture Reviews.
“Readers interested in a more calculated approach to a love story may enjoy Love Straddle, as may those who enjoy an antihero who doesn’t always win.” – Vera A. Pereskokova, Luxury Reading.
Selwyn is attending Liverpool University of Technology in the UK, with all the excitement of the sound of The Beatles. His plans do not include falling in love with alluring and smart biology student Vicki.
He may be an ambitious and successful engineering student, but he has much to learn about relationships. Each of the 105 chapters concludes with humour and insight in a rule he has learned.
Vicki is his obsession but she won’t pass on ‘free love’ the way town girl Barbara will. To be invulnerable to relationship uncertainties, Selwyn invests in non-sexist love with the two girls as a straddle in the commodity: love. Will Vicki ever forgive him for ‘selling her short’? But with each girl behaving nothing like he predicts, how can it result in anything but tragic consequences? Selwyn is literally on a cliff’s edge.
He climbs the corporate ladder and becomes the CEO of a major oil company in Canada. His compulsive love spirals down into sex addiction, then alcoholism, becoming a workaholic and a foodaholic and his relationships crumble. When a disgruntled employee exposes scandalous waste of the World’s oil, an African government makes demands that lead to disaster. Vicki goes to help him. Will he be blamed for the catastrophe? Ultimately, when he is finally free from his work and family loyalties, will he ‘close’ his trade of Vicki’s love? He seems unemotional, lacks empathy and avoids social contact. His behaviour leads to the question: will he ever accept the terms of love with one woman? The ending is a surprise with a twist.
This novel is an insight into how career and partner choices can affect personal well-being. It takes the reader on an epic journey of thought and discovery. It is a story that will have you pondering long after you put the book down.
See more about the book at: http://www.lovestraddleanovel.wordpress.com/
By the same author, a speculative fiction novel
The Grass is Always Browner (Zeus Publications 2011).
LOVE STRADDLE is available from Amazon both as a paperback and as an e-copy for Kindle or from bookshops. Review copies available from author mpknox46@aapt.net.au
LOVE STRADDLE
by M.P. Knox
ISBN: 978-0-9924623-0-7
R.P.: AUD & CDN 29.80; USD 26.70; GBP 15.95
Ebook: AUD & CDN: 9.99 USD 8.99; GBP 5.40
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