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O, Sinners
O, Sinners
O, Sinners
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"O, Sinners" is a literary novel for adults, about 140,000 words long. It is a coming-of age story, a love story, a ghost story, and a detective story, set in a mythical fifty-first state, the "Commonwealth of Amazon" on the southeastern seaboard.

The novel is a fictional scholarly edition of a memoir, "My Confessions by Willy Wilson", narrating Willy's unrequited love for Lula Smith, an enchantress (in the literal sense: she's a witch...) and future U.S. Senator from Amazon. Willy finds himself sharing Lula's house in the city of Gum (the state capital). He describes her painful life as a single mother during the summer of 1976, as she prepares for surgery to treat cervical cancer. One incident eventually defines their relationship: an accidental killing. Willy nurses Lula through the surgery. In the aftermath, they are hounded by a police detective. Finally, Willy enacts his love by making a terrible sacrifice.

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Release dateJun 26, 2012
ISBN9781476413662
O, Sinners
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Barry Blumenfeld

Barry comes from the Bronx. He was brought up all over the five boroughs and Long Island. He carried out his first scientific experiment at age six, when he plugged himself into a wall outlet and discovered the color blue. Turning to safer fields, Barry wrote his first story at ten and his first poem at fourteen. He has a bachelor's from CCNY and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Boston University, and he studied in the M.F.A. program of the University of Arizona. He has worked as a newsboy, a clerk, a peddler, a pipe-cutter, and a teacher at all levels between eighth grade and college. He lives in Minnesota with his wife Audrey and a very old cat. He has published poems and stories in literary journals and on many web sites, including the late lamented "Exquisite Corpse". His poetry collection, "Boy with Honeybee Hair", is forthcoming. "O, Sinners" is his first novel.

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