Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest by Chuck Rosenthal Book New Release Spotlight!!

Publisher

Walton Well Press

Coriolois 

 Publication Date

 September 5, 2024 

 Price

 Hardcover $29.99 / Paperback $16.99

 

 ISBN-13

 978-1-964295-01-5

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What would you do if you had the chance to meet Mary Shelley, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Lord Byron and possibly even alter their fates?

Imagine that deep within an old cellar behind Beyond Baroque—the iconic poetry venue in Venice Beach—lies a hidden library where all phones, tablets, and electronics mysteriously cease to work. Inside you'll find a hauntingly beautiful woman dressed in period clothes from the early 19th century who introduces herself as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley. She promises a journey back in time, where you will meet literary giants, embark on dangerous adventures, and traverse the romantic landscapes of 19th-century Europe.

This is the enchanting premise of Chuck Rosenthal's forthcoming literary ghost story, Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest, scheduled for release on September 5, 2024, from Walton Well Press. The novel follows 19-year-old high school dropout Beatriz, who upon taking an internship at Beyond Baroque becomes entwined with the spirits of the iconic Romantic writers and poets. Readers will be transported to hiking with John Keats in the Scottish Highlands, sailing the tumultuous seas with Percy Shelley, and swimming in the moonlight with Lord Byron.

An accomplished writer and the author of over fourteen novels, Rosenthal breathes life into these historical figures, allowing readers to explore the full depth of their passions and creative genius. He has been nominated for The American Library Association Most Notable Book Award, The National Book Award, P.E.N. International Award for Fiction, and the Circle of American Book Critics Award for Fiction for his prior work, and this one has been called a deeply intimate journey about the desire for independence and the power of finding our dreams and ourselves through poetry and art.

Novelist and screenwriter Michael Ventura, known for his bi-weekly column “Letters at 3 AM” in LA Weekly, praises the book as "a brilliantly conceived gentle phantasm that lifts the reader through a threshold where Time is the great trickster, poetry goes on forever, and if you are worthy the Darkness can glow.”

A literary version of Midnight in Paris, this book is for anyone who has ever wandered into a library and found themselves lost in the pages, with characters as real as anyone in 'real' life.

"A literary magician, Chuck Rosenthal summons metaphysical wonders from a character's simple act of walking into a bookstore, transporting the reader into a literary catacomb as rich and mysterious as Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Cemetery of Forgotten Books. If you've ever wandered into a book and

found the characters as real as anyone you might meet in 'real' life, then a grand literary adventure awaits in AWAKE FOR EVER IN A SWEET UNREST."

-ROBERT M. EVERSZ, author of Zero to the Bone

"What gorgeous madness is the work of poetic visionary Chuck Rosenthal, searching for truth and beauty in a liminal world of kindred spirits. Through the portal of AWAKE FOR EVER may we yet retrieve our own lost, romantic souls." -ELIZABETH MCKENZIE, author of Dog of the North

"Chuck Rosenthal's AWAKE FOR EVER is a brilliantly conceived gentle phantasm that lifts the reader through a threshold where Time is the great trickster, poetry goes on forever, and if you are worthy the Darkness can glow. For such a master tale to appear in such a time as ours is nothing short of a literary miracle."

-MICHAEL VENTURA

"The desire for independence is often braided by the historical, the social and the deeply intimate. Whether we look for freedom in art, faith or love, the journey to becoming an individual follows the path of our passions. From poetry and art, we experience how we might give voice to our dreams. Chuck Rosenthal's extraordinary new novel, AWAKE FOR EVER- a truly magical book about the Romantic poets-is a reminder of the courage necessary to struggle beyond one's own time and awake from its nightmare into light." -DAVID ST. JOHN

Chuck Rosenthal is a writer living in Topanga Canyon, California. He is the author of Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest as well as fourteen other novels and five other books. He is a Romantic writer.