By Tom Winton
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Review & Description
The Last American Martyr is author Tom Winton's second novel. His first Kindle, Beyond Nostalgia, has been on four different Amazon Best Sellers lists. Check out the 5-star reviews that have given Beyond Nostalgia a place on three "Top Rated" lists as well.
Description of The Last American Martyr:
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then one small soul rises from the crowded depths of obscurity and causes the earth to wobble on its axis. This last happened in 2008 when an unemployed doorman, in a secondhand Goodwill suit, stepped onto the worldwide stage in Stockholm and accepted The Nobel Prize for Literature.
In this me-me twenty-first century, Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a simple book that resuscitates the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. All around the globe, from pole to pole, from America to Zimbabwe, the marching footsteps of workers, young and old, tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased. There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely livid over the thoughts and ideals that fill the pages of his book. And the moment Tom and his wife, Elaina, return home from Sweden, they realize just how angry this profit-hungry mob really is.
Mortified by the horrid scene that awaits them inside their New York tenement, the Soles’ have no choice but to flee their longtime home. Hoping to find anonymity, they bounce all over America in an RV. But they don’t find peace. Instead they become moving targets. Everywhere they go they're followed by a succession of life-threatening events.
Here are just a few of the stunning comments readers have made about Tom Winton's debut novel, Beyond Nostalgia:
It's very difficult to write what is called a literary novel without coming across as wordy or plain rambling. I find Faulkner and Joyce and Lawrence, among others, all too fond of the sound of their own words and unable to "get on with it". There is no merit in words for their own sake in a novel: the object is to tell a story and take the reader's imagination and keep it. You've done that brilliantly. All the usual trite approvals with regard to voice, scene setting and dialogue apply, so I won't insult you by adding to them.
Nicholas Boving
I admire your writing skill, your wit, your way with descriptions, your ability to draw the reader from the end of a chapter into wanting to go on to the next as quickly as possible. I was overwhelmed by your description of what it's like to try to get a book that you believe in looked at by an agent or publisher. You write about romance, and that includes sexual activity, in a way that is moving and never salacious, I think you understand women and you love your characters; why shouldn't the reader fall for them too? All in all, Tom, it's a very powerful, very well told piece of history. It entertains, it has a moral and it speaks to the spirit. What reader can ask for more?
Lee Shore
I started to read BN and intended to read page to page, but
a lack of restraint had me jumping forward to find out where this story was
going and then jumping back. Winton squeezes a lot of emotions into each
section and uses a first person narrative that actually sounds like a young kid from New York. I thought of James Jones right away when reading BN.
Shane Kennedy
The Summer Girl
This really is a lovely piece of writing, so many plus points I don't know where to start. It's heartfelt. It's romance, not sex. It's evocative. It's addictive. It's written from life? Didn't all of us want to meet somebody like Theresa, and how many of us did?
Michael Ashley Torrington, author, 'Kristin.'
What amazing reading! I have to admit that I am dumbfounded to read such a lovely, haunting and relational story from the hands of a man! There are a few men who can write in such a way--it is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this.
B. Mayo-NevilleThe Last American Martyr is author Tom Winton's second novel. His first Kindle, Beyond Nostalgia, has been on four different Amazon Best Sellers lists. Check out the 5-star reviews that have given Beyond Nostalgia a place on three "Top Rated" lists as well.
Description of The Last American Martyr:
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then one small soul rises from the crowded depths of obscurity and causes the earth to wobble on its axis. This last happened in 2008 when an unemployed doorman, in a secondhand Goodwill suit, stepped onto the worldwide stage in Stockholm and accepted The Nobel Prize for Literature.
In this me-me twenty-first century, Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a simple book that resuscitates the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. All around the globe, from pole to pole, from America to Zimbabwe, the marching footsteps of workers, young and old, tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased. There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely livid over the thoughts and ideals that fill the pages of his book. And the moment Tom and his wife, Elaina, return home from Sweden, they realize just how angry this profit-hungry mob really is.
Mortified by the horrid scene that awaits them inside their New York tenement, the Soles’ have no choice but to flee their longtime home. Hoping to find anonymity, they bounce all over America in an RV. But they don’t find peace. Instead they become moving targets. Everywhere they go they're followed by a succession of life-threatening events.
Here are just a few of the stunning comments readers have made about Tom Winton's debut novel, Beyond Nostalgia:
It's very difficult to write what is called a literary novel without coming across as wordy or plain rambling. I find Faulkner and Joyce and Lawrence, among others, all too fond of the sound of their own words and unable to "get on with it". There is no merit in words for their own sake in a novel: the object is to tell a story and take the reader's imagination and keep it. You've done that brilliantly. All the usual trite approvals with regard to voice, scene setting and dialogue apply, so I won't insult you by adding to them.
Nicholas Boving
I admire your writing skill, your wit, your way with descriptions, your ability to draw the reader from the end of a chapter into wanting to go on to the next as quickly as possible. I was overwhelmed by your description of what it's like to try to get a book that you believe in looked at by an agent or publisher. You write about romance, and that includes sexual activity, in a way that is moving and never salacious, I think you understand women and you love your characters; why shouldn't the reader fall for them too? All in all, Tom, it's a very powerful, very well told piece of history. It entertains, it has a moral and it speaks to the spirit. What reader can ask for more?
Lee Shore
I started to read BN and intended to read page to page, but
a lack of restraint had me jumping forward to find out where this story was
going and then jumping back. Winton squeezes a lot of emotions into each
section and uses a first person narrative that actually sounds like a young kid from New York. I thought of James Jones right away when reading BN.
Shane Kennedy
The Summer Girl
This really is a lovely piece of writing, so many plus points I don't know where to start. It's heartfelt. It's romance, not sex. It's evocative. It's addictive. It's written from life? Didn't all of us want to meet somebody like Theresa, and how many of us did?
Michael Ashley Torrington, author, 'Kristin.'
What amazing reading! I have to admit that I am dumbfounded to read such a lovely, haunting and relational story from the hands of a man! There are a few men who can write in such a way--it is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this.
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