Marathon D'Écriture

<p>In the solitude of his room Alan Bland confronts the shattering loss of his enigmatic best friend known only as X. Armed with a typewriter and a heart on tenterhooks Alan embarks on a marathonian six-day six-night challenge pouring out a torrent of memories to unravel the man who was both his confidant and rival.</p><p>X a figure cloaked in unsettling secrecy formed one pinnacle of a tangled love triangle with Alan and the elusive Amara a woman whose allure proved both magnetic and devastating. As Alan recounts their fraught romance he lays bare the wounds of Amara's choice.</p><p>As the hours blur and exhaustion takes hold Alan's prose frays veering into fevered semi-conscious revelations. Exhausted and close to death after hitting the wall he makes a supreme effort at the climax of his tale to finally reveal the startling truth about X.</p><p>For readers of Andrew Komarnyckyj's sharp wit and literary finesse as seen in his novel Ezra Slef Marathon d'Écriture delivers a darkly romantic and intellectually provocative tale laced with mordant humour and profound insight a journey that will resonate with all those who have ever wrestled with the ghosts of love secrecy memory and death.</p>