The Fiction of Owen Thomas

Emerging Indie Authors

OWEN THOMAS: “The Lion Trees”

Emerging Indie Author:

Owen Thomas

Latest Release:

The Lion Trees

Publisher:

OTF Literary

Short Description:

The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the judgments of an uncompromising writer.

Representative Reviews:

“[A] cerebral page turner…a powerful and promising debut.”—Kirkus Reviews

“[FOUR STARS]... In its structure and nature, [The Lion Trees] reminds me above all of John Updike’s wonderful Harry Rabbit novels and their ability to summarize the essence of change in American society across a decade at a time.” – BookIdeas.com

“[FIVE STARS]... [A] powerful, gripping and realistic story…Wonderful… The Lion Trees does what so very few great novels can: it will take a lot out of you, but leave you with much more than you had when you began.”—Pacific Book Reviews. For other reviews, see OwenThomasFiction.com

Author Bio:

Owen Thomas lives and writes in Anchorage, Alaska. His novel The Lion Trees is available in paper and electrons at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. He is also the author of a collection of short stories and novellas entitled Signs of Passing: Letters from Winchester County winner of the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for short fiction. His story Everything Stops is being published in September 2014 by Fiction Attic Press as part of an anthology of short fiction called Modern Shorts and is available on Amazon. Owen has come to understand that there is a strange disquiet in referring to oneself in the third person. He is seriously afraid he will not be able to stop.

Available Formats:

Paperback, Kindle ebook, Nook ebook

Links to Purchase:

Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Author/Book Website:

OwenThomasFiction.com

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