Jacaranda: The Lost Photos - Softcover

Stuefloten, D. N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496082923 ISBN 13: 9781496082923

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

“One day I found a box of old photographs.” The photographs are all of a beautiful and strangely sexy woman. The narrator takes them home, and begins a voyage of discovery. The story is built around these found photos, ninety-three of them. Who is this woman? Who was the photographer? She strolls through a Mexican railroad station, and crawls, naked except for her stockings and high heeled shoes, in the mud next to an adobe wall. She poses on stone steps in the mountains of Michoacan. She is a shadowy figure hidden behind black lace. She is the star of the Midnight Rodeo. She is a dancer, a lover...a mystery eager to be explored. “Jacaranda: the Lost Photos” is my first attempt at designing a novel specifically for the Kindle and other tablets. My previous novels—though hardly conventional—were published either in trade paperback/hardback or as straightforward ebooks. For Jacaranda, I wanted dozens of photographs mixed with short blocks of text. The words evoke, rather than explain. The narrator is himself a mystery. And each chapter concludes with an internet link: you can segue from the tablet to pages of videos, slide shows, and more text, often leading into unexpected destinations. These pages are ephemeral, and change over time. The story can expand, shift, evaporate...

About this title

About the Author:

I have spent most of my life wandering around the world writing my rather esoteric novels and stories. I have been a magician's assistant in East Africa, a fisherman in the south seas, a smuggler in India. I have ridden motorcycles up the center of Australia and from California to Panama, gone down the Amazon from Peru to the Atlantic, taken a canoe along jungle rivers between Mexico and Guatemala--sleeping in Mayan ruins and Indian villages--and lived with Moro pirates in the Sulu Sea, plus much more. I am married to the Mexican poet Jacqueline Lizarraga de Stuefloten, and we now spend most of our time in a small town in Southern California. My stories and novels are, I believe, as adventurous and strange as my life. The Washington Post Book World, in its review of "Mexico Trilogy," compared my work to that of Garcia Marquez, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerete Duras. I have been writing what can loosely be called Magical Realism, Surrealism, or Expressionism, since I was a child. Four of my novels have been published by FC2/Florida State University--"Maya" in 1992, "The Ethiopian Exhibition" in 1994, "Mexico Trilogy" in 1996, and "The Wilderness" in 2000. My short stories have appeared in a variety of small magazines in the U.S., England, Australia, and Japan, including Black Ice, Santa Monica Review, and Dead Sheep; and three anthologies from FC2 ( "Avant Pop", 1993, "Degenerate Prose", 1995, and "In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader" in 1999). I have begun exploring the world of self-publishing and e-books, with some pleasure: I can now design, create, explore how books can look in our digital age.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1496082923
• ISBN 13: 9781496082923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146