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Thanks for stopping at my home page. Here you will find information and excerpts regarding my first novel, titled, A Town Called Immaculate, released by Macmillan New Writing in December of 2007. 
'The winter Minnesota sun rose and revealed the newly whited world around the house and barn. The day was calm. That statue of Mary in the yard, the gracious advocate of Immaculate, mourned under a heavy veil of new snow.' |
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Review from Dove Grey Reader: Another from the Macmillan New Writers series and this one eased itself into the moment with precision. Waddling around in my bombazine gown I felt in need of a good snowstorm, preferably descending on an un-nineteenth century Christmas Eve, bit of intrigue, some small town America and a page turner... To read the full review, click here. Review from Grumpy Old Bookman:
A Town Called Immaculate is the latest in the Macmillan New Writing series (actual publication date 7 December). This series has usually featured a remarkably high degree of professionalism in what are, by definition, first (published) novels, and this one is no exception.
The book is set in small-town, rural America, where a Vietnam-traumatised and bankrupt farmer, Ray Marak, is beginning to become unhinged. And it's Christmas Eve.
This book is, I think, harder to categorise than many MNW books, and it belongs, I suppose, in that old-fashioned mainstream novel slot which seems to be out of favour with most publishers. The author himself says that he likes to think of the book as literary fiction, but perhaps it could fall under the family saga or the thriller category as well. |
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Review from the Financial Times, by James Urquhart |
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Click here to read the review on the FT website. A Town Called Immaculate
By Peter Anthony
Macmillan £14.99
FT bookshop price: £11.99 Taciturn Vietnam vet Ray Marak struggles to keep his dairy farm solvent in Immaculate, Minnesota, a devoutly Catholic town whose men are “too much in love with liquor, cows, or both”. Ray’s beautiful high-school sweetheart Renee has endured her own parents’ demise and Ray’s presumed death in action before he stumbled back into her life and a decade of strained but solid marriage. But when a snowstorm dumps Josh Werther, the Maraks’ banker, half-frozen on their doorstep, all three have to confront some uncomfortable truths. With its terse emotions, rural dysfunction and sharply comic moments, this suspenseful debut shares midwestern ambience and territory with the Coen brothers’ Fargo. An array of strong characters gives a bright, nervy edge to Anthony’s fresh prose. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56af654a-a6c0-11dc-b1f5-0000779fd2ac.html |
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