New Book: Beyond The 4th Door

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Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago.  (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.) Rumor has it that that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract.  Can you say ‘prolific’?

Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:

Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memory of what has happened in between. Trying to figure this all out, they read a novel that Frank wrote about them and his family before the missing years. This novel within the novel is a coming-of-age family saga with Charlie, an amateur movie maker; Sarah, his insightful bible-believing mother; Irene, his creative and uninhibited wife; Frank, his nephew, the author of the novel; and Marge, who loves and hates both Frank and Charlie. Can they sort truth from fiction when perception and action are often shaped by lies? Frank and Marge bond with one another as they find ways to slip through cracks in time and space. Cracks that are doors to their past, present, and future. The first door is birth. The second is death. Finally, Frank and Marge go through the fourth door.

More about the author

Visit Amazon’s Richard Seltzer Page
Richard SeltzerNow a publisher of 3000 public domain electronic books, I worked for DEC, the minicomputer company, for 19 years, as writer, marketing consultant, and “Internet Evangelist.” I graduated from Yale, with a major in English, and earned an MA from the U. of Mass. at Amherst in Comparative Literature (French, Russian, and German). At Yale, I had creative writing courses with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.

Visit my web site http://www.seltzerbooks.com There I post thoughts, memories, stories, novels, plays, essays, reading lists, genealogical research, info about ebooks, and matters of interest to friends and family. This isn’t your typical web. It’s meant to be idiosyncratic and fun. I always welcome feedback and suggestions. Twitter @seltzerbooks

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