The Calling

by Ron Terranella

"compelling...very highly recommended...standout novel..." -Midwest Book Review RETIRED university professor and novelist Ron Terranella has written an unusual and compelling chronicle of the aftereffects of a childhood sexual assault against the background of the Second World War and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He has done so from the child's point of view. The novel traces the victim's struggle to put the pieces of his late teen years together, recorded in the second half of the novel. The retired professor of English Literature, a former Yeats scholar at the University of Notre Dame, also took pains to make his work a page-turner. "I've tried to create a world, not just tell a story. and tried to render that world as vividly as possible. It's a spiritual chronicle, but it's not a pious one given the protagonist's struggle in that context."

264 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2020