Hi everyone! Today I'm happy to be participating in the blog tour excerpt reveal for
The Tragic Age by Stephen Metcalfe!
What it's about:
This is the story of
Billy Kinsey, heir to a lottery fortune, part genius, part philosopher
and social critic, full time insomniac and closeted rock drummer. Billy
has decided that the best way to deal with an absurd world is to stay
away from it. Do not volunteer. Do not join in. Billy will be
the first to tell you it doesn’t always work— not when your twin sister,
Dorie, has died, not when your unhappy parents are at war with one
another, not when frazzled soccer moms in two ton SUVs are more
dangerous than atom bombs, and not when your guidance counselor keeps
asking why you haven’t applied to college.Billy’s life changes when two people enter his life. Twom Twomey is a charismatic renegade who believes that truly living means going a little outlaw. Twom and Billy become one another’s mutual benefactor and friend. At the same time, Billy is reintroduced to Gretchen Quinn, an old and adored friend of Dorie’s. It is Gretchen who suggests to Billy that the world can be transformed by creative acts of the soul.
With Twom, Billy visits the dark side. And with Gretchen, Billy experiences possibilities.Billy knows that one path is leading him toward disaster and the other toward happiness. The problem is—Billy doesn’t trust happiness. It's the age he's at. The tragic age.
Stephen Metcalfe's brilliant, debut coming-of-age novel, The Tragic Age, will teach you to learn to love, trust and truly be alive in an absurd world.
All of us tour participants are giving readers a fun sneek peek into
The Tragic Age!
The Tragic Age!
By following these links, you can happily read your way through the first 50 pages of the book! Check it out:
Excerpt 1: Tuesday, February 3rd:
KellyVision
Excerpt 2: Saturday, February 7th:
Amaterasu Reads
Excerpt 3: Tuesday, February 10th:
The Young Folks
Excerpt 4: Friday, February 13th:
Unbound Books
Excerpt 5: Sunday, February 15th:
Books and Whimsy
Excerpt 6: Thursday, February 19th:
Stories & Sweeties
Excerpt 7: Monday, February 23rd:
As I Turn the Pages
Excerpt 8: Saturday, February 28th:
Novel Novice
And now, for the excerpt! :D
At the end
of every day in
front
of good
ol’
High School High, there’s always a line of vehicles clogging the street,
waiting to pick up the younger kids who don’t have rides
or are too
lazy to
walk.
Most of
these
vehicles
are
pricey
SUVs,
and
behind the
wheel of
each
of them there’s
usu-
ally a distracted,
impatient
soccer
mom
while
in the
backseat are crying babies, barking dogs, pissed-off tod-
dlers, and sullen
middle schoolers.
Fact.
There are over
fifty thousand
automobile fatalities
in the
United States every year.
Fact.
Two hundred thousand
died
at Hiroshima.
Conclusion.
A frazzled soccer mom in a five-thousand-pound sport utility vehicle
is more
dangerous
than
an atomic
bomb. Really, they can
get
you
anywhere, even
in front of
your
own
house. They can
even be those
who
are
closest to
you.
Example.
