Bücher von David Brendan Hopes

The lives of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on New York's Lower East Side in 1911, imagined for the stage.

Night,Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers revists Thomas Wolfe's Asheville 100years later. It is now a city of art and artists, and the people who see art and artists as away to become later day Medici, and put their mark on the world. What the history booksleave out is that these people are fully sexual and fully impassioned. . . and sometimestalk to their cats.

A novel of male friendship and forbidden love in post-WWII Appalachia: "e;A pitch-perfect exploration of the terrors and pleasures of American adolescence."e; -David Pratt, author of Bob the BookIn The Falls of the Wyona, four friends growing up on the banks of a wild Appalachian river just after World War II discover, almost at the same time, the dangerous, alluring Falls and the perils of their own maturing hearts.Seen through the eyes of his best friend Arden, football hero Vince falls in love with the new kid, Glen. But they have no context for their feelings-and the next few years of high school become a tense, though sometimes funny, artifice of concealment.The winner of Red Hen's Quill Prize and an INDIES Silver Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction from Foreword Reviews, The Falls of the Wyona is a moving, powerful novel imbued with the magical atmosphere of Appalachian culture.