Fade

by David Whitney

Perhaps the best way to describe just how much this book caught my imagination is to reveal that even almost a year after reading it, there are still scenes that I remember vividly, quotations that I can recall and to confess that I will never think of doughnuts with sprinkles in the same way again."Brilliantly written love story captures your thoughts and emotions throughout the whole reading and long after it. The lucid and detailed narration provides multi layered complexity of each character's personality, startling revelations, creative turns of the plot."Dramatic and touching, the author does a brilliant job of capturing the reader's attention and reeling them into the depths of his story telling. FIC027000 Darren Smith Smith, Darren Darren Smith is the author of The Bends and Shadow?s Bliss, his plays include A Picture of Teetering Crockery, Comments in Red, Kiss Me Quick and One In, One Down, One Out and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. iUniverse 2008-12-03 00:00:00.000 The Fade NULL 978-0-59548-079-1 294 2007-12-05 00:00:00.000 6 9 TP BW eng 18.95 109800 What if you find the woman of your dreams and are then diagnosed with degenerating blindness? What if this could mean that you may never see your unborn baby's face?In this entertaining and engaging love story, The Fade follows the life of Patrick Bryce. A sales trader by profession and working on the West Coast Patrick finds himself forced East after a buyout that leaves him in New York City alone, single and suffering from numerous lifestyle founded neuroses. It is then that he meets Olivia, a brash and overconfident local and her bitter cat, Tinsel. Their touching and unique love affair runs before learning to walk and soon they are cohabiting and pregnant, an unplanned yet welcome event for both before Patrick is diagnosed as a having a variant of Stargardt's Disease, a strain that causes complete blindness leading him to embark on a journey of rediscovery. FIC027010 Darren Smith Smith,

294 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 2007

About the author

David Whitney, an author of Get Coding! Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Build a Website, App, and Game,is an independent software consultant who helps developers and businesses find smart solutions and write clean code. He enjoys helping people learn how to build better software, using leading-edge tools and frameworks. He lives in London.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fade' is an outstanding novel. It is a modern day, tragic love story. The story skips forward and back in time as we learn about the life of Patrick Bryce, an ordinary man who has just found the love of his life and has never been happier, but then the worst happens when he finds out that he is losing his sight. We follow Patrick through the ups and downs of his emotions during this painful time as he is told that he will eventually go blind and he then begins a journey; a race, to re-live the most important moments of his life by visiting people and places that meant something to him, before he loses his chance to ever experience them again. By his side throughout all of this is the woman he loves. The plot builds and the novel gains pace in the final chapters of the story to the surprising and tragic end. Despite the heart-rending content of the book, the overall message is an uplifting one affirming the idea that love, in all its forms, truly can conquer all. It is very well written with insightful observations into human behaviour. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes contemporary fiction.