January's Paradigm - Softcover

Guest, J. Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588987442 ISBN 13: 9781588987440

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

January’s Paradigm is a novel about marital infidelity from the male perspective with an unexpected twist of events and characters who cross lines of identity, space, and time.

About this title

From the Author:

"(Readers) will not be able to put it down." - Current
With a sci-fi thriller on the best-seller list, a lucrative contract with his publishers, and hard at work on the eagerly anticipated sequel, Robert Porter is enjoying the fruits of success. Then one day he comes home to discover, firsthand, his wife's infidelity. As his world comes crashing down unceremoniously around him, there is only one man who can rescue him from this morass of grief and loneliness. Only one man who can help him regain his self-esteem and dignity. One man who can restore his pride as a man - Joe January, Porter's fictional detective from the year 1947 and fantasy alter ego. Only with January's help can Porter set about righting the wrongs of his own tormented present and, through letting go of the past, find hope for a better tomorrow. "J. Conrad Guest has taken the heartbreak of sexual betrayal and turned it into a romance-fantasy in which all of the wronged spouse's dreams - well, most of them - come true....Although January's Paradigm deals with a situation, marital infidelity, that has become so commonplace it scarcely draws the attention of anyone not directly involved (Congress' current obsession, of course, is a notable exception), Guest holds the reader's interest here by pulling out all the stops on his powers of imagination...However, the psychological journey of Robert Porter back from near-total defeat is described in close, realistic detail. All the right females cross his path. At times, January's Paradigm veers into melodrama, and excessive wordiness and quirky diction make the going slow in passages...though the novel is not for everyone - graphic sex punctuates the book's first half and neither unatrractive women nor lesbians fare well - others will not be able to put it down." - Current Entertainment Monthly, Ann Arbor, Michigan

About the Author:

I was named Joseph Conrad for my dad’s favorite novelist. As a boy my dream was to become a Major League Baseball player, but my parents had other ideas. They urged me to play it safe, learn a trade, get a job with an automotive company and retire in forty years with a gold watch. To me that was a prison sentence. I was creative and wanted to leave my mark on the world. How to go about achieving that dream perplexed me for many years, until I sat down to write my first novel. January’s Paradigm was born from a bloodied and bruised heart. What started as therapy for me turned into a passion. My dad often criticized me for not finishing what I started, and I was determined to finish a novel. When Dad read my second draft, after two years of labor, he was pleased. While I geared up for submitting my child to agents and publishers I struggled for a name. A nom deplume was out of the question. I wanted to use “Conrad” but didn’t wish to be compared to the man who today is considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I finally settled on J. Conrad Guest and have never regretted it. If you’re reading these words, you have my thanks for finding me. I hope you’ll find on these pages something that appeals to your literary appetite.

About this edition

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1588987442
• ISBN 13: 9781588987440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 339