The Wives Of Marty Winters

by Alec Clayton

Gay rights activist Selena Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride celebration. She is rushed to the hospital and a blood clot is removed from her brain. Family members... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980032202
• ISBN13: 9780980032208
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Claytonworks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Look at the words

The is the third of Alec Clayton's novels I have read; and while I can't say I always like his choice of topics, I do enjoy his writing style. His characters are vivid but above and beyond that, the settings are like scenes on a theater stage. He paints word pictures in all his work of something so simiple as a rustic roadhouse or as distasteful as hate crimes that can be so vivid the reader is compelled to read farther. No topic is taboo. His writing is candid. His outspoken characters passionately display what must be his personal convictions and in the midst of this, they are not devoid of a sometimes subtle humor in a well-placed situation or a simple pun. The Wives of Marty Winters is an escape from reality to reality and provides a venue for development of personal imagery. I encourage you to see for yourself.

the wives of marty winters

Although it contains its share of tragedy, the book is fun to read. By the time I finished it, I felt that I knew the characters personally. The author introduced them in a "Steinbeck" kind of way.

Enjoyable, irreverant

I live in Olympia, WA, one of the venues for this novel. I read other books set here (like Jim Lynch's The Highest Tide) with a little apprehension, but both Lynch and Clayton's novels deliver the flavor of the community in pleasing and authentic fashion. Wives is easy to read, moves along with a collection of offbeat, imperfect characters rendered with unsentimental affection by an author who delivers time and place (and the changes of his characters through time) credibly and immediately. If you'd like a return trip to high school, the hippie days, and a journey through an unusual life somewhat accidentally lived, wich quite a few laughs and some poignant loss, to boot, this is a great bet.