Evolution of a Young Man in Love, Debut Novel Exploring the Mind of a Young Man Seeking Discovery
Industry: Books
The young protagonist, Joseph Hawking, travels through the loves and tragedies in his life trying to make sense of his world and what he believes may be the end of it.
Austin, TX (PRUnderground) October 18th, 2018
William West has studied human behavior throughout college and two careers in social work and criminal investigations. He brings this knowledge to his writing with Evolution of a Young Man in Love which tells the story of Joseph Hawking, born with special abilities, but reluctant to use them to fulfill a destiny as a superhero.
As a boy, Joseph Hawking was compared to his uncle who died at an early age, and Joseph feared that his abilities would not be able to save him from that same fate. As an adult, Joseph chooses to live a quiet life as a high-school English teacher in Austin, Texas where he hides his abilities. When he teaches Evolution in his classroom, he sets in motion events which make him newsworthy and bring an old friend, a new lover, and a stalking serial killer into his life. Joseph senses a controlling force outside himself, pushing him toward the tragic event of a palm reader’s prediction. The clock is ticking, and Joseph must decide if fate or free will controls his life. He examines his past and his unique evolution for clues to face unresolved issues with his family and friends and help him understand and live with what is inevitable in everyone’s life.
Advance praise for Evolution of a Young Man in Love
Nothing is normal in Austin. A fast-paced debut, William West’s Evolution of a Young Man in Love elicits sentiments of uncertainty and rebirth.
As high school English teacher Joseph Hawking works through the death of his lover in the face of a new one, we begin to uncover the story’s true nature. For a first novel, West has a knack for characterization, weaving complicated strands of soft-hearted care and intellectual determination through Joseph that holds steady throughout a truly terrifying serial killer plot line and the delicate web that is a new relationship. With help from long-time friend David, a cantankerous live-how-you-want side-kick, we are transported into a deep hole of investigation and self-discovery through realized superhero meets noiresque narrative.
Scattered with chaptered memories of ages long passed, West gives a full-breadth picture of a protagonist struggling to find answers to life-long questions about his unnatural, superhuman gifts. Though dialogue attribution and sentence structure read maladroit at times, the prose gains literary momentum in its second half with flowered phrases; “A soft, impressionist light . . . ” and “Smells of dry leaves raked into luscious colorful piles.”
At its heart, the debut’s search for resolve is reminiscent of humanity’s inability to live an unanswered life and the very personal drive for a comfortable acceptance of ourselves as we are.
Rebecca Baumann
Writer. Editor.
“A potent tale of a man with intriguing powers and relatable misfortunes.” –KIRKUS REVIEW
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