McDowell: A Novel

Written by William H. Coles

Narrated by William H. Coles

An admired and lauded surgeon climbs to the top of his profession but his callous and questionably moral determination angers colleagues and friends. He becomes a member of the President’s cabinet when he is confronted with personal family tragedy that leads to a conviction for a felony; his world of wealth and privilege collapses. He escapes from prison as a fugitive, constatly on the move to avoid capture by authorities and those he's wronged. To survive and rebuild his life, he befriends strangers that elicit new self-awareness of the value and reward of being huamne.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Story In Literary Fiction
• Release date: Nov 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781987183375

William H. Coles

William H. Coles is the award-winning author of short stories, essays on writing, interviews, and novels in contests such as The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, among others. He is the creator of storyinliteraryfiction.com, a site dedicated to educational material, a workshop, and examples for writers seeking to create lasting character-based fiction with strong dramatic plots that stimulates thought about the human condition. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.