Lockhart
Ebook
Overview
Ralph Bland’s eleventh novel, Lockhart, is the picaresque tale of Thomas Lockhart from his college days in the 1970s to his landing spot thirty years later in his hometown of Rhodes, Tennessee. Escaping from a dark past and a disreputable present, Tom Lockhart returns to Rhodes to confront the ghosts and demons of his past and somehow carve out a place to stand his ground against age, time, and the worst of all his enemies: himself. From a haunted incident to a shattered romance and the promise of a happy ending, Lockhart walks, runs, and shapeshifts himself through the labyrinthian corridors of the magically realistic world in his path.
”In the tradition of Southern fiction, Thomas Lockhart is
working his way along the ragged edges of his life, trying to make
sense of the choices he has made and the regrets that haunt him.
Maybe he can even find some measure of redemption. Ralph Bland
writes movingly of contradictions and ironies about lives lived,
weaving their way through entanglements, bars, and cheeseburgers in
search of a reason to be."
--M. M. Braswell, author of Gaffrey’s Dream
“Bland’s intriguing novel tells the story of Thomas Lockhart’s
return to his hometown after a long absence. As he goes through the
process of reconnecting with people and place, he finds himself
dangling hopelessly in a web of regrets that he himself had spun.
Bland skillfully excavates the midden of Lockhart’s life history
and through it all validates the adage that old sins do indeed cast
long shadows."
--Anthony Cavender, coeditor of Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon
Line
"Ralph Bland takes his antihero, Thomas Lockhart, on a journey
through life that goes full circle, where his reflections on his
travails bring redemption. The journey is entertaining and very
much worth reading, and the reflections will remind many of their
journey, as well."
--Monte Lamb, former sales executive
- Title: Lockhart
- Author: Ralph Bland
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666713268, 9781666713244, 9781666713251, 1666713260, 1666713244, 1666713252
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666713268
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:52:29Z
Ralph Bland is the author of eleven novels and two collections
of short stories. He is a graduate of Belmont University in
Nashville, Tennessee, and lives with his wife and spoiled dogs on
the outskirts of Music City, USA (Nashville, TN).