A.R. Marsh

Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, A.R. Marsh attended Rutgers University following a stint in the U.S. Navy. After raising his family and retiring from a long career in business, A.R. and his wife relocated to central North Carolina. Twice a Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities short story award winner, A.R.'s fiction has been published in Perigee: Publication for the Arts, the United Kingdom's University of Portsmouth anthology Borderlines 2008, and London's Pen Pusher Literary Magazine. A.R. pursues his passion for the written word in the small town of Southern Pines, North Carolina.

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Marsh, A.R. "Orville's Divine Cadillac and Used car Emporium and Other Stories." Biddeford Pool, ME: Rainbow River Press, 2011.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Like entangled paper clips, the lives of people in a small North Carolina town are entwined in an intricate web that leads to a sudden and unexpected death in A.R. Marsh's novella, ORVILLE'S DIVINE CADILLAC AND USED CAR EMPORIUM (Rainbow River Press, 2011) which opens his collection and is followed by 22 character-driven short stories.

ORVILLE'S DIVINE CADILLAC AND USED CAR EMPORIUM is set in a small North Carolina town and centers on Orville McCurdy, a man driven by an obsessive need to own everyone and everything around him. Orville is a zany, slick, but shrewd businessman seeking every opportunity to strengthen his financial endeavors. He seeks his own church and his own Jesus to further his plans. In his zealous pursuit to capture both, Orville learns the hard way that, regardless of money and power, death levels every playing field.