The Whole World in His Hand - Softcover

Rhodus, Rodney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151740147X ISBN 13: 9781517401474

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Gillis Gilford is in love—again; but, this time the object of his affection is a flesh-and-blood creature, a new waitress at his daddy’s diner where he works as cook and manager. However, she does bear a striking resemblance to a young beauty from a magazine that he saw, and that resemblance soon leads to a road-trip from Mesopotamia, Kentucky, to Nashville, Tennessee. Gillis and the new waitress, Jeanette, are accompanied by Gillis’s best friend, Waugh, and Ruth Ann Belcher, another waitress from the diner. Along the way the group stops at a drive-in movie double-feature, does not hit a possum, attends a wedding, attends a funeral, and eats at a variety of diners. Meanwhile, Charles Bland, science-fiction and fantasy writer from Cincinnati, is searching for the same young woman from the same magazine that inspired Gillis’s infatuation; Bland’s mission is to make her his bride, which does not set well with Purity Bliss, the erstwhile object of his desires and fictional heroine of his novels. Also traveling the highways and byways of Kentucky is Tristan Shoat, folklore graduate student, who is researching names for his dissertation: The Sociological and Psycho-Linguistic Effects of the Name on the Common Man. The novel follows the disparate groups as they travel toward the final scene in Nashville, a showdown fraught with heroic derring-do, near-spiritual revelations, and a soupcon of denouement for those who need that sort of thing.

About this title

About the Author

Rodney Rhodus grew up in Berea, Kentucky, went to Berea College, officially became a Christian, graduated, went to the University of Kentucky, taught some freshman comp classes, graduated again, got a teaching certificate, moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, taught high school, got married, moved back to Kentucky, taught some more high school, went to Eastern Kentucky University, graduated again, fathered a couple of children, bought a house, taught a few more college classes, and wrote some words. He lives in Richmond, Kentucky, with his wife Liese and his two offspring, Andrew and Celia. He teaches at Model Laboratory School, a part of Eastern Kentucky University. He enjoys spending time with his family and cooking and eating and reading and watching movies and writing and thinking about things.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151740147X
• ISBN 13: 9781517401474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260