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Fishnet
Maurice Melnick's imagination has forever painted an underwater world more exotic yet safer than the one above. Now he sees in wife Shelia's smile all the years he spent swimming away from her. He decides to fix that smile on canvas, stopping time but the painting only drives him deeper into his imagination.
176 pages, Paperback
First published July 25, 2005
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Paul A. Toth
17 books37 followersPaul A. Toth's next major work, Airplane Novel, will prove to be THE 9/11 novel and is now available from Amazon and other retailers. See http://www.airplanenovel.com for more info, media and ordering links. Toth's first three published novels form a nonlinear trilogy consisting of Fizz, Fishnet and Finale.
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February 23, 2012
Fishnet by Paul A. Toth, is a story about a marriage falling apart which parallels the story of the deterioration of the small California town of Mercy, in which the couple – Maurice and Sheila – live. Maurice is an artist who inherited money from his father and is obsessed in his attempts to capture an image of his wife, the Sheila he used to know. He has a habit of escaping reality, hearing voices talking to him, voices that come in the form and shape of various persons, real and imagined. Both Sheila and Maurice are trying to reconnect with the people they used to be and the relationship they used to have. Meanwhile, the small California town where they live is falling about, on the verge of bankruptcy. A cast of colorful characters converge to try to save the town, just as Maurice attempts to salvage his marriage.
Paul Toth is a unique, inventive writer who, in Fishnet, tells a Vonnegutian-type tale. His writing is fresh and his tale is one that keeps the pages turning. What will become of Sheila and Maurice, who waffles between reality and the fantasy world he takes refuge in? What will become of the small town and its people, who we are shown glimpses of in the book? There is an assorted cast of characters – Holly, Sheila’s closest friend, Uncle Albert, who is in love with a younger woman from Norway, Phipps, the rock star, Ray Pulaski, the security guard, and the father and sons who diverge on Mercy to stage the fireworks show that is part of the town officials’ scheme to save the town from financial ruin with a huge Fourth of July celebration.
Fishnet is a quirky tale that wanders between reality and fantasy and one that will keep you riding the wave of the impending disaster that is headed for Maurice, Sheila, and the entire town of Mercy, until the very last page.
Paul Toth is a unique, inventive writer who, in Fishnet, tells a Vonnegutian-type tale. His writing is fresh and his tale is one that keeps the pages turning. What will become of Sheila and Maurice, who waffles between reality and the fantasy world he takes refuge in? What will become of the small town and its people, who we are shown glimpses of in the book? There is an assorted cast of characters – Holly, Sheila’s closest friend, Uncle Albert, who is in love with a younger woman from Norway, Phipps, the rock star, Ray Pulaski, the security guard, and the father and sons who diverge on Mercy to stage the fireworks show that is part of the town officials’ scheme to save the town from financial ruin with a huge Fourth of July celebration.
Fishnet is a quirky tale that wanders between reality and fantasy and one that will keep you riding the wave of the impending disaster that is headed for Maurice, Sheila, and the entire town of Mercy, until the very last page.
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