Gary D. Mawyer has been writing for over five decades. He lives in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Contact Gary at [email protected].
Contact Gary at [email protected].
GARY'S BOOKS
Shad River
Decades become centuries and lives flit past like the leaves of a book or the leaves of a tree. Shad River persists, shaped and changed, marked by each generation, but always itself. Place is the real protagonist in this novel of overlapping histories in a remote mountain community. |
The Southern Skylark
When Augustus Hingely, poetic dilettante and acquaintance of the Romantic expatriates Byron and Shelley, comes ashore in America, he expects to be introduced to polite society in drawing rooms and lecture halls where he might express his thoughts on "The Lives of the Poets." The Americans, however, find entirely new and unexpected identities for Mr. Hingely, in a picaresque of gothic manners as Hingely makes his way up the James River toward the Springs of Virginia, a would-be apostle of freedom in a land of slavery. |
Dark and Other Stories
The twilight of the 20th Century seeps into this collection of haunting tales set in the mountains and small towns of Central Virginia. Computers were new, rotary telephones were not yet old, and wall socket electricity was coarse and unrefined. As in the otherworldly riddle stories of Jorge Luis Borges or the dark imaginings of Ambrose Bierce, fact and fantasy are not easily separated in the architecture of Dark and Other Stories. |
Sergeant Wolinski and the Great War
Sergeant Wolinski and the Great War tells the story of one man's experiences on the Western Front during the last climactic months of the First World War, as the newly-formed American Expeditionary Force met the veteran German Army in France. Visitors of the Argonne Forest battlefield today see little evidence of the destruction that visited this region in 1918, but the signs of war remain for those who look. The causes and consequences of the Great War, as it was then called, are very much alive and still with us today. The actual events of the Great War are largely overshadowed by the later disasters of the 20th Century, but we can still, in a limited way, sometimes reconstruct what happened and what the soldiers of the A.E.F. experienced. |
Exemptions
Phil was an undergraduate and Marsha was a nurse. Warren stumbled into Vietnam and then Cambodia and nearly got himself killed. Andy was an SDS dropout, Leandra was an escapee from The Patch, and Tori was a townie chick. It was 1969 and thing after thing just kept happening and happening. |
The Complete Adventures of Rhesus A. Macaque, Private Investigator
Many years have passed since the detective casebooks of Rhesus A. Macaque and his partner Guy Poisson were first opened to the public, beginning with the Adventures and the Trilogy. Not all the cases were made available until now. It did not seem wise. |