The Escapist
Book Feature - The Escapist by David Puretz
Book Feature - The Escapist by David Puretz
HBL Note: I love featuring first-time authors! I say this over and over again on this blog, but it is worth repeating: I have tremendous respect for anyone who writes a novel, much less publishes it. Being an author is difficult and often lonely work. When I get the chance to feature a first-time author, I jump at it. It can’t be easy to promote your first book and I love to help out when I can! Scroll down to read all about The Escapist, a debut novel by David Puretz.
Book Feature - The Escapist by David Puretz
From the publisher:
When escape becomes a first line of defense, is it possible to ever face life's harsh realities? In his debut novel, The Escapist (Global City Press, January 28, 2020), David Puretz details one young man's seemingly never-ending quest for his missing father. Weaving topics like mental health, family conflict and abuse, drug addiction, and sexuality throughout a frame narrative structure, Puretz delves into the internal and external calamities that shape the human life and mind.
The only thing protagonist Billy Chute excels in is escaping. After finding that his father has escaped his own life and disappeared, Billy quits his job and sets out to find him. But what he may really be searching for is a path to free him from his past and give him a purpose and future.
More than a story of self-discovery, The Escapist takes an intimate look into the psyche of an unlikely protagonist. Billy turns to writing as he travels the country, and uses writing, in part, as a way to heal, make sense of things, and forgive. Within the narrative, he explores the adversity of family and self, desperate to create his own identity, but drug addiction and the lasting effects of past abuse take him deeper into an escape than he ever could have imagined.
Book Feature - The Escapist by David Puretz
