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Signals from a Lampless Beacon: A Great City
Signals from a Lampless Beacon: A Great City
Signals from a Lampless Beacon: A Great City
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A review of that novel, Beasts of Burden, begins: Subtle moral conundrums stir this luminous saga of genteel Southern society in the mid-20th century, and ends: An engrossing social tapestry, filled with quiet spiritual dramas.

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The saga, which chronicles, primarily, three families, two races, and four generations, was brought forward in the second novel, Their Burdens Lifted, published in 2010. It is completed, with all narrative, moral, and philosophical strands brought together, in the present book, A Great City.

Traywick has stated that he intends to publish no further novel. Whether this marks the end of his effort as a writer remains to be seen. He will certainly pursue his preferred pastimes: Carpentry, plumbing, electrical wiring, masonry, the study of Old English, and painting (pictures, not walls). Traywick lives with his wife of 45 years in the mountains of Western North Carolina in summer, in winter in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. They have four children and, at this time, six grandchildren.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateNov 1, 2013
ISBN9781491708477
Signals from a Lampless Beacon: A Great City
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Paul Traywick

Paul Traywick, a Southerner educated in the East, is a Classical Scholar and a Physician. He has published in learned and professional journals, but his first fiction was published in 2009, the first volume of the trilogy Signals from a Lampless Beacon.

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