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The Seventh Round
A divorced, middle-aged father of two young children meets with ruin in the Great Recession. Broke and facing his second layoff with little hope for another job, he acquires a .32 caliber revolver with a seven-round load. He moves with fatalism through an alcoholic week of heartbreak, despair, and obsession over a lost love toward the inevitable disintegration of his life. But he intends to cheat the inevitable with the gun. Each night, he loads another round in the cylinder in a deliberate, measured preparation for action. Finally, the seventh day comes, and the gun is fully loaded. "The Seventh Round by Alan Wynzel is intense, disturbing and yet riveting. An unpredictable heart breaker." --Brenda Perlin, Author of Crime and PUNKishment "Where Kafka left off Wynzel steps in, with an added shove from Bukowski. Seventh Round depicts the naked, brutal demise of a modern-day tech worker amidst the rabid dystopian change that infects us all. Read it if you dare seek what waits staring at you from the other side of the mirror..." --Melvin Litton, sometime writer and guitar player www.borderband.com "Alan Wynzel's writing is raw and filled with honesty. His story tells us some uncomfortable and uncompromising truths about love, money and the system. At times this shows a bleak and bitter outlook on life, at times it's full of the joys and fun that comradery, friendship and the unexpected you still can find at the worst of times. Wynzel does all of this with just enough warmth and self-reflection that lifts it from self-pity to literary quality, not unlike - but more contemporary than - a Bukowski or Richard Yates." --Christoph Fischer, author of THE HEALER.
160 pages, Paperback
Published March 20, 2020
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Alan Wynzel
2 books15 followersTHE SEVENTH ROUND: A BRIEF SYNOPIS
A divorced, middle-aged father of two young children meets with ruin in the Great Recession. Broke and facing his second layoff with little hope for another job, he acquires a .32 caliber revolver with a seven-round load. He moves with fatalism through an alcoholic week of heartbreak, despair, and obsession over a lost love toward the inevitable disintegration of his life. But he intends to cheat the inevitable with the gun. Each night, he loads another round in the cylinder in a deliberate, measured preparation for action. Finally, the seventh day comes, and the gun is fully loaded.
BIO: ALAN WYNZEL
Alan Wynzel has been a storyteller and writer from a very young age. In the sixth grade he wrote a sixty-three page WWII story. He’s lived in New Jersey all of his life except for a brief flirtation in Lawrence, Kansas in the early 90s, where he started writing seriously. (His girlfriend told him he’d never make it with a guitar, please write instead—she liked her peace and quiet)
Since then he’s written six novels, including THE SEVENTH ROUND, and his childhood memoir. THE SEVENTH ROUND is his first work to be published. Now he’s writing screenplays, having adapted his latest novel, a WWII drama, into a feature length script.
Much of THE SEVENTH ROUND is true, or extrapolated from truth. Especially the sex—all true. But Mr. Wynzel wants it to go on record that he has never owned a gun, never got into a bar fight, and most of all, has never sang Karaoke.
A divorced, middle-aged father of two young children meets with ruin in the Great Recession. Broke and facing his second layoff with little hope for another job, he acquires a .32 caliber revolver with a seven-round load. He moves with fatalism through an alcoholic week of heartbreak, despair, and obsession over a lost love toward the inevitable disintegration of his life. But he intends to cheat the inevitable with the gun. Each night, he loads another round in the cylinder in a deliberate, measured preparation for action. Finally, the seventh day comes, and the gun is fully loaded.
BIO: ALAN WYNZEL
Alan Wynzel has been a storyteller and writer from a very young age. In the sixth grade he wrote a sixty-three page WWII story. He’s lived in New Jersey all of his life except for a brief flirtation in Lawrence, Kansas in the early 90s, where he started writing seriously. (His girlfriend told him he’d never make it with a guitar, please write instead—she liked her peace and quiet)
Since then he’s written six novels, including THE SEVENTH ROUND, and his childhood memoir. THE SEVENTH ROUND is his first work to be published. Now he’s writing screenplays, having adapted his latest novel, a WWII drama, into a feature length script.
Much of THE SEVENTH ROUND is true, or extrapolated from truth. Especially the sex—all true. But Mr. Wynzel wants it to go on record that he has never owned a gun, never got into a bar fight, and most of all, has never sang Karaoke.
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June 15, 2020
“A hole, where I lost something priceless in the time it took to take a breath. To know how much I lost is what hurts the most.”
As dirty and morose as this book is, I felt myself drawn into this messed up character that reminds me of someone I know. We might all know someone like this. Unfortunately.
There’s no way through the weeds but I breathlessly read, hoping for a turn in a better direction. Like a car accident that I couldn’t take my eyes away from.
Alan Wynzel's 'The Seventh Round' is a tough read because of the dark places it takes us but also, an easy read because it’s easy to get absorbed into the character’s missteps and misdeeds. It’s not going to end well kept running through my brain as I read page after page, not slowing down. Disturbed and curious at the same time.
As dirty and morose as this book is, I felt myself drawn into this messed up character that reminds me of someone I know. We might all know someone like this. Unfortunately.
There’s no way through the weeds but I breathlessly read, hoping for a turn in a better direction. Like a car accident that I couldn’t take my eyes away from.
Alan Wynzel's 'The Seventh Round' is a tough read because of the dark places it takes us but also, an easy read because it’s easy to get absorbed into the character’s missteps and misdeeds. It’s not going to end well kept running through my brain as I read page after page, not slowing down. Disturbed and curious at the same time.
April 28, 2020
Immediate and wrenching, all around and within, like today's news -- a circus mirror of America's psychic landscape reflected through the eyes of one desperate, honest soul. And you won't guess the ending till you get there...
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