Flick

by T.D. Badyna

Unknown Binding

About the author

T.D. Badyna was born in Toledo, Ohio, received a West Point appointment, but went west instead, worked for six years on ranches, in kitchens, oil fields, coal mines, construction sites and at age twenty-four gave education a go, but neither he nor the program stuck, and he went on to earn his keep as a technical writer, then a journalist, published a few poems, stories, so on – none of which stuck either, and he became a tradesman, a journeyman bricklayer and stonemason, working seven years with a team of masonry artists, two for Ohio Building Restoration, a year in Appalachia solo rebuilding an 18th century stone farmhouse, so on, New York City to Portland, Oregon, Long Island’ east end to Montana’s high plains. He lays brick and stone still, lives, as much as anywhere, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Flick is his first novel.