| BRIAN CALDWELL- We All Fall Down
BRIAN CALDWELL
BRIAN CALDWELL'S short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, including, THE THRESHOLD, THE TRANSCRIPT, and THE BROWNSTONE REVIEW. WE ALL FALL DOWN (WAFD) is his first novel. He currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife and two young sons, and is an outstanding English teacher. WAFD is currently being used as a university text book by a New York University... Briian's talent is finally becoming recognozed, evidenced by his recent acceleration of sales.
The theme of WE ALL FALL DOWN is that we effectively use an assortment of lies and delusions to hide the truth about ourselves, both from the world and ourselves. God sees through all of those lies, and if we are to become close to God, we must break through our delusions. Our comfortable, conventional ideas about ourselves are actually lies we have told ourselves.
In constantly setting up expectations by use of multiple genre, tone, and structure, and then reversing those expectations, Mr. Caldwell's novel not only speaks to that truth, but creates the SENSATION of having those lies exposed.
Like all cutting edge work, from Miller to Camus to Buroughs to Bukowski, Mr. Caldwell's skill will initially be rejected and vilified by some. Don't be fooled, though, if you read this book, you are reading the beginnings of one of the next greats.
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