[Michlib-l] Book Promotion

[Sylvia Merz]

Hello all.  Am shamelessly promoting purchase of a Leelanau County author’s
book, Testimony of the Senses,  by Cory Oldweiler.  Below is a synopsis.
The book is being released on May 18th, but is now available on Amazon and
Ingraham; soon on Baker & Taylor.  Cory has worked at the Leland Library on
and off for the past  10 years in between writing, traveling,  and attending
opera, his great passion, all over the world.  He is an extraordinary and
passionate writer.  

 

One reviewer writes, “This book is not for sissies.  The story line is a
simple one, a teenage boy looking for his absentee father.  However, on his
journey he finds more than he bargained for.  Told expertly by Oldweiler
with his vast knowledge of music, opera and fascinating mythological
references.  He brings a new twist to storytelling.  I can’t wait to read it
again”.

 

"Testimony of the Senses" is the story of Emilio Tramonti, a boy who grows
up believing his father died before he was born. On his seventeenth
birthday, Emilio learns that his life has been predicated on a lie-his
father is actually alive. He leaves home, seeking to understand, and
eventually to confront, the man who ran rather than raise his child. There
is nothing quotidian in the telling of this tale. Emilio is conducted toward
his fate by an omnipresent companion, Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony,
which premiered on the date of his birth and provides the aural architecture
of his life. His mother's idolatrous obsession with Michelangelo's Pietà
transforms her from a coddler to just another absent authority figure. A
false, former New York Philharmonic violinist teaches Emilio to hear, but
ultimately betrays and loses his trust. An annotated, photo-filled copy of
Ovid's "Metamorphoses," dating from his father's time as a photographer
during World War II, holds the mysteries of his parents' past-and a
carefully preserved dead lizard. And in his final movement, increasingly
insensate from wandering Lear-like through the storm surrounding and
suffusing him, Emilio is forced to face judgment for the choices he has
made. "Testimony of the Senses" is both bildungsroman and billet-doux, to
literature, language, and music. It challenges the reader to think, to
question, to seek out answers. How do we grieve? Why do we hope? What are we
willing to believe in blindly, on faith alone? Ultimately it is Emilio's
voice that matters most in all these matters, Emilio's voice that carries
the story along. Rhythmically, melodically, almost compulsively.

 

Here is a link to the website:  http://www.cydaedalusbooks.com/ 



Sylvia Merz, Director 

Leland Township Library     

203 E. Cedar St., P.O. Box 736     

Leland, MI 49654-0736

PH: 231-256-9152     FAX: 231-256-8847

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday — 10 to 5     Wednesday—10 to 6
Saturday—10 to 2

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