tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54227244609626403472024-03-13T00:52:45.979+01:00Mark Beyer : read ... live ... writeMark Beyer Novels - realistic fiction - love gone right-wrong - art and sexmarkbeyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549648226870834414noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5422724460962640347.post-22943866738280859342023-06-25T09:56:00.005+02:002023-06-25T10:11:38.569+02:00Mark Beyer Novels<h2><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></strong></span></h2><h3 class="western" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
write realistic fiction about men and women. Their relationships are
the plot, but their characters are the story. All of these (and more)
create what's otherwise called The Traditional Novel. These stories
are long reads; sometimes they are dark stories. They are always
sophisticated fiction inside complicated stories. This is ... fiction
that stirs your imagination, your prejudices, your passion for the
opposite sex.</span></i></span></span></span></h3><h2><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></strong></span></h2><h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">MAX, THE BLIND GUY</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"> (2015)</span></span></h2>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">This is the story of Maximilian and Greta Ruth, their 40-year relationship, and all the demons that show up as they </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">find that life rarely goes according to plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">Max daydreams in colors which his eyes can no longer see. His wife is leading them on a six-city European tour. Greta Ruth calls this trip their “last hurrah.” She hasn't had the best from 40 years with Max. But Max takes their life differently: marriage is an affair of more than the heart’s journey. This pair of American originals have known passion, riches, and sorrow. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Today, these roads lead them through Europe’s famed cities, but Greta wonders if the plan will see her through to the promised “champagne on the Grand Canal.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">Their Elite Travel tour-mates are getting on each other’s nerves. They are characters found next door, on everyday streets, under black-eye days, and across lost-memory nights. The highlights and sights, the posh lunches, the gamy conversation over drinks in the bar – and of course the "tour friendships" – all make their faux-camaraderie sometimes combative but never boring. A story rife with modern perils – too much time, too much money, just enough libido, secrets revealed – Max and Greta Ruth don’t wait for what the future may bring.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">Oft times a dark, anti-romance, <i><b>Max, the blind guy</b></i> is also the story of choices a husband and wife make, which, apart from their ardor and honor, erode trust but leave the fibers that do not allow them to pull away so easily; they must therefore feel their way toward some shared middle-ground.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span></span><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Buy this story of Euro-travel and tragedy at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Mark_Beyer_Max_the_blind_guy?id=pyKqEAAAQBAJ" target="_blank">GoogleBooks</a>.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-janitor-or-dostoevsky-in-america" target="_blank">KOBO Digital Books</a> has this very American story.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">Available from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Max-blind-guy-Mark-Beyer/dp/1507523505" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-blind-guy-Mark-Beyer/dp/1507523505/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432373784&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+beyer+max%2C+the+blind+guy" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://markbeyerauthor.blogspot.com.es/p/max-excerpt.html">Read an excerpt of Max, the blind guy</a> not found at on-line shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Beauty-Mark-Beyer/dp/1470033836/ref=la_B0088A70VG_1_2_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416219973&sr=1-2" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">WHAT BEAUTY</span></strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"> (2012) </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">How might the Olympian Gods change if we
were to allow our imaginations to see their true ages? Time changes
all people — even gods — and when their day-to-day mischievous
lives no longer play a role in human affairs, what then do they
become? The image of shriveled skin is too apt to ignore. And, above
all, what do we associate with the aging of these gods within the
condition of our modern times? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Minus Orth has an idea which can explain
this, and give our imaginations the figures to uphold. He is
sculpting the mighty figures of myth — and the not-so-mighty — in
an art cycle he has titled "Mythical Gods in Their Twilight"
without the least irony. And his creations have not come without a
price. </span></div>
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day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek, best remembered as a
culture critic of the <span style="color: #222222;">1960s. Karen dropped out of sight years ago.
Now she dresses as a bag lady — ragged clothes, a garbage smell,
and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to
the good life. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen,
and discovers in her a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but
is burrowed deeper in society’s crust than anyone could imagine.
Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen’s
past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, and
with the role artists play in society’s split personality. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Do
you have what it takes to make something beautiful?” is a question
that comes to the minds of many characters in </span><i><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What
Beauty</span></b></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;">. Their
answers are hilarious, confused, self-delusional, virtuous, or simply
truthful, because the people who create beauty are different from
those who value beauty, and far afield from the powers able to help
it flourish … or destroy it. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;">Buy the story of this sculptor's work-life at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Beauty-Mark-Beyer/dp/1470033836" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Mark_Beyer_What_Beauty?id=1RSqEAAAQBAJ" target="_blank">GoogleBooks </a>has this traditional novel for your bookshelf!</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">This American Tale is also available at <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/what-beauty-1" target="_blank">KOBO digital books</a>.<br /></span>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://markbeyerauthor.blogspot.com.es/p/what-beauty-excerpt.html">Read an excerpt of What Beauty</a> not found at on-line shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Village-Wit-Mark-Beyer/dp/1453757554/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1416219722&sr=1-4" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">THE VILLAGE WIT</span></strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"> (2010) </span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;">American
Richard Bentley settles in rural England, looking for the contented
life of a bookshop keeper and some fun with the local women. His wife
of fourteen years left him out of “marital boredom,” so
Heath-on-the-Wold seems the ideal place to get lost in work and
forget the past. Bentley then hires Peggy White, a mid-forties
townswoman who seems his match in sass and intellect. Soon, the rules
of attraction open a new chapter in their lives.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Village Wit</span></b></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;"> follows
Richard and Peggy’s often humorous and sometimes dark odyssey
through village life, love’s fall, sexual politics, and that place
where memory and modern love intersect. This novel explores,
from the male point of view, the acts of love and its betrayal, loss
and longing, and the steps one makes to find love again. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Buy this sophisticated story at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Mark_Beyer_The_Village_Wit?id=dyKqEAAAQBAJ" target="_blank">GoogleBooks</a>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-village-wit-2" target="_blank">KOBO Digital Books</a> has this book-shop tale ready for you!</span><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;">Also available as the best fiction from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Village-Wit-Mark-Beyer/dp/1453757554/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432309090&sr=1-1&keywords=the+village+wit" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Village-Wit-Mark-Beyer/dp/1453757554/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432373657&sr=1-11&keywords=mark+beyer" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://markbeyerauthor.blogspot.com.es/p/tvw-excerpt.html">Read an excerpt of The Village Wit</a> not found at on-line shops.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><h2 style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Janitor-Dostoevsky-America-Mark-Beyer/dp/B08FP7LP7C" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">THE JANITOR: Or, DOSTOEVSKY IN AMERICA</a>ANITOR: Or, DOSTOEVSKY IN AMERICA</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"> (2020) </span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Have you ever heard the story of the Hero turned Goat?<br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At sixteen, Ernest Waine is trapped in a world of hate. He cycles between knowing his friends and seeing enemies watching from the shadows. What has made me this way? he asks. An answer eludes him by day; at night he reads fantastic books in which he can only hope to learn some right path along the potholed roads leading to the end of the twentieth century.<br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The day Ernest opens Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky’s voice shouts at him over the noise made constant by his daytime life. What he hears from the Russian master-storyteller makes the case for his next move. Murder, on a notorious scale.<br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Twenty-five years later, Ernest is asked to recall the day in his life when he had planned to kill his classmates. This time he does not hear Dostoevsky speaking, but his own voice coming from behind the horror of what he had done, and what he hadn’t.<br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America carries with it the passions of the frightened, the angry: those children compelled to react in the name of self-defined safety, and lone survival. Sometimes, the sum of all actions does not define a life.<br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Let me tell you the one about the Goat turned Hero...”</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This story of a high-school shooting gone wrong is for sale at <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-village-wit-2" target="_blank">GoogleBooks</a>.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read this dark story by buying from <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-janitor-or-dostoevsky-in-america" target="_blank">KOBO Digital Books</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefdfa; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also available in print and ebook from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Janitor-Dostoevsky-America-Mark-Beyer/dp/B08FP7LP7C. 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