Pleasure Boat Studios Terry Guillory 'Schilling'


Announcing a new book from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press Schilling from a study in lost time by Terry Guillory ISBN: 1-929355-09-2 Price: $16.95 (trade paperback) * 159 pages "Dating from WW1 to his painful demise in the late 1940s, this book chronicles the life of rural Louisianan Dr. Schilling in elegant, mesmerizing prose. Guillory, who has taught English at several American universities, uses the perspectives of Schilling and his sister, sons, and wife to reveal how and why one family fell apart. Schilling is disturbed by familial hostility, the deaths of his sister and one son, and his memories of Eustacia, a lovely young woman with whom he was infatuated. To save her from a prison sentence for murdering her abusive husband, Schilling testifies that she is insane. Consequently, Eustacia is committed to a mental hospital, but later Schilling and the reader learn that she is neither guilty nor insane. Ironically, the old doctor who had given his heart to his patients finds himself dying an agonizing death of heart disease, entirely dependent on morphine and his resentful wife to survive. More than just another good read, this poignant, poetic novel is recommended for all libraries." - Library Journal, 11/1/02 "A brilliant work with the scent of Gulf salt air in its pages-innovative, imaginative, eclectic, poetic, unpredictable, sometimes reminiscent of Faulkner, sometimes of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, James Lee Burke, but always in Guillory's freshly unique voice. This may be the new face of fiction." Jack Olsen "Guillory's style and narrative strategies, rich in imagery, cascading in detail and resorting at times to stream-of-consciousness passages, recall the work of William Faulkner and James Joyce. Like them, but in his own way, Guillory poses the timeless speculations of thinking and feeling human beings in a mysterious universe." Sy M. Kahn "Terrell Guillory's instinctive command of Southern cadence and language bring to life a deeper way of knowing the world through the life of one good doctor. It recalls Faulkner, and even Joyce." Scott Wilson	About the Author: Terrell Guillory was born and reared beside the 98th meridian running through Texas, the dividing line between the South and the West, according to rainfall, farming to the east, ranching to the west-two cultures. He was exposed to other cultures as well: The Anglo-Celt and the German, the Mexican-American and the African-American of Central Texas. His parents' roots were in Louisiana, his mother from Winn Parish, his father from Evangeline, marinating him in two other cultures-Anglo-Saxon southern and Cajun French. He was educated at the University of Texas in Austin and at the University of Washington, and he's taught English at the universities of Washington, Idaho, and Purdue. He currently writes a column for the Port Townsend Leader in the northwest corner of Washington state. For many years he has divided his time between the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Southwest. Most of his writings come from notes taken from glimpses through the window of a train which arrives too soon. For more information about this or about other Pleasure Boat Studio books please contact Jack Estes Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press 201 W. 89th St., #6F New York, NY 10024 Email pleasboat@nyc.rr.com * Tel/Fax: 1-888-810-5308 Or check our website at www.pbstudio.com.

Announcing a new book from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

Schilling
from a study in lost time
by Terry Guillory
ISBN: 1-929355-09-2
Price: $16.95 (trade paperback) * 159 pages

    "Dating from WW1 to his painful demise in the late 1940s, this book chronicles the life of rural Louisianan Dr. Schilling in elegant, mesmerizing prose. Guillory, who has taught English at several American universities, uses the perspectives of Schilling and his sister, sons, and wife to reveal how and why one family fell apart. Schilling is disturbed by familial hostility, the deaths of his sister and one son, and his memories of Eustacia, a lovely young woman with whom he was infatuated. To save her from a prison sentence for murdering her abusive husband, Schilling testifies that she is insane. Consequently, Eustacia is committed to a mental hospital, but later Schilling and the reader learn that she is neither guilty nor insane. Ironically, the old doctor who had given his heart to his patients finds himself dying an agonizing death of heart disease, entirely dependent on morphine and his resentful wife to survive. More than just another good read, this poignant, poetic novel is recommended for all libraries." - Library Journal, 11/1/02

    "A brilliant work with the scent of Gulf salt air in its pages-innovative, imaginative, eclectic, poetic, unpredictable, sometimes reminiscent of Faulkner, sometimes of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, James Lee Burke, but always in Guillory's freshly unique voice. This may be the new face of fiction." Jack Olsen

    "Guillory's style and narrative strategies, rich in imagery, cascading in detail and resorting at times to stream-of-consciousness passages, recall the work of William Faulkner and James Joyce. Like them, but in his own way, Guillory poses the timeless speculations of thinking and feeling human beings in a mysterious universe." Sy M. Kahn

    "Terrell Guillory's instinctive command of Southern cadence and language bring to life a deeper way of knowing the world through the life of one good doctor. It recalls Faulkner, and even Joyce." Scott Wilson

About the Author: Terrell Guillory was born and reared beside the 98th meridian running through Texas, the dividing line between the South and the West, according to rainfall, farming to the east, ranching to the west-two cultures. He was exposed to other cultures as well: The Anglo-Celt and the German, the Mexican-American and the African-American of Central Texas. His parents' roots were in Louisiana, his mother from Winn Parish, his father from Evangeline, marinating him in two other cultures-Anglo-Saxon southern and Cajun French.

He was educated at the University of Texas in Austin and at the University of Washington, and he's taught English at the universities of Washington, Idaho, and Purdue. He currently writes a column for the Port Townsend Leader in the northwest corner of Washington state.

For many years he has divided his time between the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Southwest. Most of his writings come from notes taken from glimpses through the window of a train which arrives too soon.

For more information about this or about other Pleasure Boat Studio books please contact Jack Estes Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press 201 W. 89th St., #6F New York, NY 10024

Email pleasboat@nyc.rr.com
* Tel/Fax: 1-888-810-5308 Or check our website at www.pbstudio.com.

IN the BLURBS: "In the finest tradition of Western letters, Dr. Schilling joins Achilles, Aneas, Percival, Hamlet and Joyce's Leopold Bloom in the futile struggle with the paradoxes of human existence." Wes Cecil

"Terrell Guillory's Schilling is suffused with the lushness of both its Faulknerian language - what a pleasure to see that great American literary tradition of narrative reinvigorated!-and its humid Gulf coast settings where we watch in intimate detail the brief flourishing and slow decay of some lives, the fernlike unfurling of another." Alvin Greenberg