Bøger af Al Landwehr

The Dancing Horologist is a work of fiction containing ten short stories and one novella, all focusing on love. Some of the stories are romantic but love is a complex subject and some of the stories are comic, some are dark, some are surreal-and some are a mixture of these qualities. A comic strain runs though many of the stories. Eight of the stories have been previously published in such magazines as Playboy, Redbook, New Letters, The Chariton Review, The Laurel Review, and Negative Capability. The unpublished two stories and the novella are more recent efforts which haven't been exposed to the light. Merely Players, the novella at the end, borders on noir fiction.

"What's Left to Learn, part mystery part romance, renders the story of a former academic turned vintage car expert in pursuit of a manipulative, philandering photographer who disappeared nineteen years ago... Self-consciously witty, drawn to women who are both covert and beautiful, and driven by a primal need to understand the world's dark secrets, Michael Drayton finds himself attracted to an intelligent if cautious woman whose emotional wounds seem linked to the missing photographer. The protagonist grows increasingly urgent in his search for the photographer. A valuable, bullet-strewn car with artistic photos in the glove box, photos that will surely embarrass their subjects, compels the protagonist to discover what happened to the car's long-gone owner... The protagonist is not only compelled to solve what turns out to be multiple mysteries revolving around the talented if ethically challenged photographer; he discovers insights into his own understanding of heterosexual relationships as well as changing notions about ideal beauty and even the deepest components of attraction."--Amazon.com.