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Magnetic North
In Magnetic North an aging warrior and his best friend—perhaps his only friend—ride motorcycles to Alaska, with the ultimate goal of riding to the Arctic Circle. It is a ride that mirrors their lives, a ride that causes old stories, old trials, old darkness to come, once again, through the spinning wheels of the machines they are riding. Morgan is a man who can't give it up. His propensity toward violence has followed him through all the days of his life, and it follows him now. Slade has shared much of Morgan's life, and he has been the one of the rare stabilizing factors in that life. Without Slade, it is clear that Morgan has no guidance, no goals, and no potential for living much longer than his next encounter with . . . almost anything. And so the two old friends ride out from New Mexico and Colorado—heading north.
The Pale Light of Sunset
Author of nationally acclaimed and locally banned novels Crum and Screaming with the Cannibals, Lee Maynard details an imaginative account of his journey through seventy years of hard living-from West Virginia, to Mexico, the Arctic Circle, and beyond.
The Scummers
Jesse heads west from West Virginia, ending up in California and then the Army and back again in the hopes of finding his home.
Crum
In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains. The weight of wonder, dejection, and even possibility loom over this tiny, suffocating town. This story is the tale of Jesse Stone, who doesn't know where he's going, but knows he is leaving, and whose rebellion against the people and the place of his childhood allows him to reject the comfort and familiarity of his home in search of his place in a larger world.
Screaming with the Cannibals
"Screaming with the Cannibals gets its title when the central character of Crum, whose Christian name is revealed in this novel, finds himself in an evangelical service in Kentucky on the other side of the Tug River from his native West Virginia. As the folks touched by the Spirit rave and howl, he remembers how, back in Crum, the folks used to tell him to stay on his side of the river, because the people on the other side were known to eat their children. And now, here he is in a Kentucky holy-roller church, screaming right along with the cannibals." "Since the first novel, our protagonist has visited the West Virginia holler where his family lived before he moved up to the greater sophistication of Crum, and there he discovers that his favorite uncle has disappeared from the face of the earth in a moon-shining accident. He then meets the girls who makes the earth - or at least the hay loft - move for him and, quite literally, he falls for her. From there he goes to Kentucky, and then to Myrtle Beach, where he gets hired as a life guard, although he cannot swim a stroke."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Triumph of the Spirit
"A motorcycle has no imagination. A motorcycle is a chunk of refined iron ore configured to go forward at varying rates of speed. A motorcycle cannot bleed, and it cannot think. Therefore, it cannot have an imagination. But all we have to do is slide onto the saddle of a motorcycle and our own imaginations go berserk. We become different people; we start to think differently. Our bodies are sitting on the machine but our minds are in some ethereal place where all the mundane things of our lives are hidden from view. We see the world in an entirely different way. We can go places beyond the imagination."Why ride? Lee Maynard, life-long motorcycle rider and author of seven novels, answers the question from his own perspective. In A Triumph of the Spirit, we are taken to the far reaches of a human spirit that searches constantly for the horizon, only to discover that the horizon always is out of reach. And that is when we understand that it is the search, not the finding, that is the center point of our being. It is the ride.
Cinco Becknell
"Cinco Becknell is the story of a homeless man with no memory. Locked in the emptiness of his mind is a secret, a past, which will either keep him alive or get him killed. This novel, based on generations of violent, local family history, is set in the underbelly of the pseudo-glitzy streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico"--
Beautiful Boredom
This volume explores boredom as a possible force for good in the Victorian novel. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72), and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881), boredom is an important means through which female characters are able to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness. In her discussion of these works, the author examines both the deleterious and restorative aspects of boredom and shows how this subtle theme has continued to be used by more modern authors.
Crum
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