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    More Like Not Running Away: A Novel
    More Like Not Running Away: A Novel
    More Like Not Running Away: A Novel
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    More Like Not Running Away: A Novel

    By Paul Shepherd and Larry Woiwode

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    An “extraordinary first novel” about a father trying to escape the past and a son lost in a world of imaginary voices—winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize (Booklist).
     
    Levi Revel is a boy in danger of losing his family and maybe his mind. He’s in awe of his father, Everest—a majestic dreamer, a master builder, a man with a violent, secret past. As the family moves from state to state, Levi hears solace in the voice of God, a voice that sends him preaching from treetops and roofs.
     
    But as the family begins to fall apart and Levi enters adolescence, he starts to hear more troubling things. When Everest takes him on a high-speed, cross-country chase to win back Levi’s mother—by force if necessary—Levi realizes how much danger they all are in.
     
    Tender and frightening, More Like Not Running Away takes readers across America, through the eyes and ears of a child whose family is haunted by a past they can’t outrun.
     
    “Shepherd’s family-in-decline frames an impressive father-son character study.” —Publishers Weekly
     
    “This extraordinary first novel about the blood ties that bind fathers and sons packs such emotional power that reading it is like sustaining repeated blows to the heart.” —Booklist
     
    “Shepherd is a master craftsman, and the subtlety of his art, the unassuming elegance of its architecture, rendered me spellbound and finally grateful.” —Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
     
    “A riveting exploration of what it is to be an outsider even in your own head. Shepherd has written a gripping story of childhood angst—psychologically thrilling, lyrically exact.” —Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarabande Books
    Release dateDec 1, 2005
    ISBN9781936747184
    More Like Not Running Away: A Novel
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    Paul Shepherd

    I was born and raised in Los Angeles Ca. I moved to NC in 2004. I am a movie buff and my stories move fast as if you were reading one. I got into fiction after reading Dan Browns Angels and Demons. I read the rest of his work and was hooked. I tried other authors but had yet to find one that grabbed me as much, so I began writing. I was as surprised as my friends and family that it came so natural. Like a duck in water. I guess it’s never too late to try something new. If you don’t try, you never know. My fascination with conspiracy theories and the occult, not in sense of devil worship but with alternate, off mainstream beliefs will resonate into my stories. I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them. - PM Shepherd

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