Just Do It: A Novel - Softcover

Rabuzzi, Kathryn Allen

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ISBN 10: 0997345926 ISBN 13: 9780997345926

Publisher: Ootpik Press, 2017

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JUST DO IT, a literary novel, explores various current cultural issues, particularly stressing the enormous impact of all forms of media on the privacy none of us can now assume. Modeled on such novels as Chris Bohjalian’s plot and character driven Midwives, JUST DO IT forces the reader to think, as well as simply enjoy a fast-paced read. Set in 2014, it tells the shocking tale of prominent Syracuse, NY physician, Lyman Batcheldor: Lyman’s wife is discovered in a pool of blood, near husband and wife’s shared master bath shower. Initially ruled accidental, accusations of murder escalate triggering extensive national media coverage, and eventually incriminating Lyman. Complicating the tale is the growing love for the doctor, of chance patient, Lucy Haythe, who recently left the only life she’d known so far in a commune led by a self-styled nun. Lucy’s love may, or may not be, simply an artifact of an over-active imagination. Many other equivocal pre- and post-indictment happenings not only heighten the increasingly distorted, growing parallels between the doctor’s pre- and post-indictment life and Lucy’s pre- and post-commune existence, they similarly parallel the lives of family members, friends, and neighbors. [Please note: This novel does NOT attempt to re-tell the ‘real life,’ soap opera-ish, continuing media story of locally prominent, Syracuse physician, Robert Neulander. Just as I completed the book, Neulander was convicted of murder and is now in prison.]

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