I'm sorry I'm behind the curve on this one. The paperback of
Driftless, a novel by David Rhodes came out in May. This, over 30 years after publishing three highly acclaimed novels in the 1970s. What happened? He was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. Below is from Poets&Writers website.
The photo is by Lewis Koch.
But less than a year later
his wife and daughter moved out, this time for good. By then Rhodes was
addicted to the morphine doctors had prescribed for the phantom pains he was
experiencing throughout most of his body. "It was a difficult, dark period of
time," he says. "I wrote a number of things, and I put a minimal effort into
seeking publication for them. I used the first rejection as a reason not to
pursue it any further, because I was profoundly unhappy with myself and I was
profoundly unhappy with the writing I was doing. It was a long period of
writing novels that were very long and very dark. I don't think I'll ever want
to see anything ever done with those. I was working through things in a way
that I didn't have enough of a vision. And I was too angry and I was too
bitter."
Read how David Rhodes turned it around.
Read more about Driftless.
Rob
