Sardinian Silver - Price: $24.95 Hard Cover; $14.95 Soft Cover; $6.00 eBook
by A. Colin Wright, ISBN: 9078-0-595-71601-2; 978-0-595-48106-2; 978-0-595-601998
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Recruited to represent a travel firm from his hometown of Great Britain, Arthur Fraser, the main character of Sardinian Silver, arrives in the resort town of Alghero on the Island of Sardinia and is instantly bewitched. Based on his own time on Sardinia, Wright's captivating and often times hilarious novel follows the exploits of a young man trying to find love while assimilating to an archaically orthodox society. Sardinian Silver opens with Arthur sailing across the Tyrrhenian Sea towards his new home. On his journey, Arthur meets a native Sardinian: the first in a cavalcade of characters- serious, humorous, and tragic. Once settled in, Arthur sets out on achieving what he wants most-a Sardinian girlfriend.
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Biography :
A. Colin Wright was born and raised in Chelmsford, Essex, England. After serving as a linguist in the British Royal Air Force, Wright attended Cambridge University where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1961, he lived for six months in Sassari, Sardinia, followed the next year by a longer period in Reggio Calabria. He speaks six languages reasonably fluently, including Italian, and can stumble along in two more. In 1964, he was appointed professor of Russian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained at Queen’s until his retirement in 1999 and still resides there today. Dr. Wright is married and has two grown sons. See also www.sardiniansilver.com and www.acolinwright.ca. Other fiction, including a story The Trouble With Saints, also set in Italy, may be found a www.authorsden.com/acolinwright.
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Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
The first novel by retired language professor and playwright A. Colin Wright is based on real life experiences from his youth that he spent on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia-back in the early 1960s before it had become the middle-class tourist mecca it now is. It's a fantastic read, to tell you the truth, like discovering a lost Graham Greene story. Wright takes his time here with his story, making plot a dim second to the mere establishment of time and place and mood, gently exploring the back alleys and side daytrips of this remarkable island with a kind of grace and ease that only comes with maturity. And in this, astute readers might be reminded as well of the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. Like I said before, this novel is without a doubt as good as one of Graham Greene's...and in fact, could easily be mistaken for some forgotten Greene tale that's been gathering dust in some attic trunk for decades. It's for these reasons that a book like Sardinia Silver is such a satisfying read.
