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Red MountainBirmingham, Alabama, 1965 a novel by Charles Entrekin Available for $25 from your local bookstore or |
SynopsisSet against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 is the coming of age story of Eddie and Chrissy, young white Southerners trying to be true to what they believe in. In this new novel, author, Charles Entrekin masterfully evokes the great struggles of the early 1960’s-from the civil rights movement, to the anti war campaigns, to the sexual openness of “free love”. These tumultuous times are experienced by ambitious, eager Eddie Anderson, oldest son of a working class Alabama family desperately trying to escape his blue collar constraints and Chrissy Lee Williams, a girl who knows where she’s going. She is going to college; she is going to make a difference. Red Mountain is a story of young love, idealism, ignorance and tragedy set against changing times in the American South. It is a story of a young couple who struggle to nurture love and sanity amid the backwardness of early 1960’s Birmingham and then through the intoxication of bohemian New York City and the sexual revolution. Filled with racial and sexual tension Red Mountain tells the story of what it means to attempt to stand alone against the beliefs of a culture. To find some semblance of clarity and wisdom where there is none and to be honest in the face of lies. Book ReviewsThanks to Charles Entrekin for this good book. The descent of Chrissy is heavy stuff, so difficult to do without sentimentality, and Entrekin handles it awfully well. There are characters here that the reader really attaches to … wants to know more about. After the novel is finished and they are long gone from the page, they linger in the mind, and one keeps wondering how they are faring. This fine, deeply felt novel will have a permanent place in the literature documenting the massive upheavalsof those tumultuous times Reading this novel, you will feel it as if it were your
own life, your own wounds, being lifted up from the
well of memory. An absolute page-turner. Red Mountain is a huge accomplishment. A gripping and enlightening read from someone who lived and breathed and wrote his way through
one of America’s most tumultuous times. Red Mountain shows how we’re all capable of transcendence and self-transcendence, even in the
worst circumstances and among our most hectic mistakes. For further information, or to book a reading, contact: vgrudd@hotmail.com Download Press Kits |
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