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David Dworsky
By his own estimate, David Dworsky has written millions of words, including the 200,000 or so in Master Mac. David decided to write the novel --his first --in the aftermath of a lo...view moreBy his own estimate, David Dworsky has written millions of words, including the 200,000 or so in Master Mac. David decided to write the novel --his first --in the aftermath of a long career hammering away at telexes, typewriters, computers and other machines from which words could be coaxed. As a fledgling novelist, David decided to stick to a rule that had served him well as a journalist and corporate writer: Write About What You Know. Accordingly, he drew from concepts and themes that had loomed large in his professional life. Plus oceans and the boats that sail upon them.
Master Mac is told through the prism of the McBurney School; a once-prominent but now-defunct New York preparatory school which the author attended as a teenager. McBurney sought to teach students about excellence in many shapes & forms; masks & disguises; configurations & structures. Although McBurney is years in the past, it ripened into a lasting memory and a defining experience.
With a McBurney boy's typical modesty, the author denies that he is an example of the excellence about which he has written. He concedes, however, that he is one of the main characters in Master Mac, although in deep disguise. David hopes that readers will find in Master Mac the concept of excellence that enriched the lives of thousands of boys --and what a few of them made of it.view less