August Ansel - The Attic

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November 7, 2016

EDITORS’ PICK Autumn/Winter 2016

After the Pretty Pox: The Attic is the first ever Editors’ Pick from our editorial panel at e-scribes.com. It blew us away!

When we receive submissions for consideration for an editorial review, rarely do we find several editorial reviewers—working for ‘big five’ publishers in their day jobs—proclaiming the book one of the best they ever read. That’s what happened here.

As one of those reviewers, I found my heart in my mouth, every sense almost frighteningly awakened. I had a deep desire to run into the street and tell everyone they must, must read it.

I don’t recall ever having such a strong feeling about a book before, in fact. It stole my heart and imagination.

While many post-apocalyptic novels cleverly portray the visual and environmental devastation and the friction of the relationships and struggles ensuing, After the Pretty Pox: The Attic shows the deeply personal, gentle-paced, introspective sense of isolation and human suffering and then the overcoming of it.

Characters come alive with sentience; you can almost reach and hold them, and in fact, you’ll wish you could do so, to fold the suffering ones in your arms and deliver them to safety.

To try and describe the book’s story line and contents would be to do a disservice, because for us,this book is about everything ; it’s about each of us and the world we know—or, at least, the one thought we did.

The language used is strikingly, hauntingly beautiful, relatively formal prose perfectly selected;in places, we found this a literary work of art, and we devoured and savoured each sentence while holding fast onto the next breath, hardly daring to exhale.

After the Pretty Pox: The Attic is a wordsmith’s feast, yet there is nothing pretentious about this novel; its words ripple through the reader’s mind like a calm stream, free of hyperbole and unnecessary affect. It does not need to try too hard; we find it sublime as it stands.

A truly incredible, inspirational book and a feat of literary achievement, at e-Scribes, we all consider this is an outstanding, thought-provoking, self-questioning must-read.

After the Pretty Pox: The Attic is the first in a series; while we find it stands alone, on its own merit, we will devour the second with equal relish.

Copyright © 2016, August Ansel

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Look Ma No Hands Publishing, Eureka. No portion of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without express written permission of the publisher. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9861717-2-7 (Look Ma No Hands)

ISBN-10: 0-9861717-27

After the Pretty Pox: The Attic is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents, including those of a historical nature, are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The following lyric excerpt is from a work in the public domain: “The Water is Wide.” Scottish/Irish folk ballad, traditional, c. 1724.

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