Happy Holidays Corfu Magazine
Articles and Features (published quarterly) about Corfu and its many attractions
Vol. 1, No. 4; June 15, 2005
Two Great Novels Set on Corfu!
Doran Seeger studied each face around the table. His newfound companion, Alarice Van Zyl, suddenly and miraculously understood Greek. Her sister, Gisela, was relying on him, he sensed, for something as yet unstated. Their Greek benefactor and friend, Modestos Thromos, yawned prodigiously, as he’d been at the dock late last night trolling for tourists. And Elena, Modestos’s discerning wife, looked anxious as she imagined the latest exploits of her debonair son.
For Doran, these once-unfamiliar images had become so compelling that he could only surmise: If I don’t tear myself away from this place immediately, I shall remain here forever, forget my concerns and responsibilities, and renounce my personal history once and for all.
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Read an excerpt from XENOS
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Title: XENOS
Author: David A. Ross
Publisher: Escape Media
Publication Date: August 1998
Format: Trade paperback, 232 pages
ISBN: 0-9661861-1-7
First Edition: 2,000 copies
Retail Price: $12.95
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David A. Ross was born January 6, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to his career as a novelist (Sacrifice and the Sweet Life, 2003, Escape Media; A Winter Garden, 2003, Escape Media; Stones, 2001, Escape Media; Xenos, 1998, Escape Media; The Trouble With Paradise; 1997, Escape Media), he is a former columnist and contributing editor for Southwest Art Magazine (1984-1985). His first novel, The Trouble With Paradise, was awarded third prize in the 1997 National Writer's Association Novel Competition. David A. Ross lives on the Island of Corfu, Greece.
Motivated to expatriate by guilt and remorse after helping to design guidance systems and smart bombs for the U. S. Military, Doran Seeger has lived the past decade in Europe. Wandering from country to country, he has encountered new societies and new ideas, yet after ten years abroad he still struggles to appease his conscience. Living in Prague and working as an underground art dealer, a chance encounter with the sister of his former lover persuades him to return to Greece, where a society that embraces real civility, not to mention a few idiosyncrasies, tenderly draws the habitual itinerant out of reticence and cynicism. With his longtime Greek friend Modestos Thromos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
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Read an excerpt from Winter Garden
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Title: A Winter Garden
Author: David A. Ross
Publisher: Escape Media
Publication Date: February 2003
Format: Trade Paperback, 314 pages
ISBN: 0-9661861-6-8
First Edition: 3,000 copies
Retail Price: $15.00
Other books by David A. Ross
The Trouble With Paradise (1997)
Stones (2001)
Sacrifice and the Sweet Life (2003)
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