Threads of Life: A Collection of Literary Fiction

A collection of three novels by Brian Prousky, now available in one volume!

Auden Triller (Is A Killer): Simon and Auden Triller are twins with vastly different lives. Simon is accomplished, popular, and devoted to his unappreciative brother. Auden, on the other hand, wants nothing more than a simple life free from comparisons to his twin. As Auden's solitude leads to insanity, he loses his grip on reality, and his actions threaten to sever his bond with Simon just when he needs him most.

God Might Forgive Gershwin Burr: After his father's death, Gershwin Burr turns to stealing books as a remedy for his depression, but his thievery spirals out of control. Despite his wife's pleas to stop, he can't bring himself to quit until he's betrayed and arrested. Imprisoned and tormented by guilt, Gershwin seeks redemption and the identity of his betrayer in this beautifully written novel about trauma and redemption.

The Anna Geller Invention: A young poet named Harvey Painter is visited by a fan named Anna Geller, who gives him a single poem before disappearing. Thirty years later, an investigative reporter discovers that Anna has secretly given her poems to people around the world, turning her into a literary sensation. Harvey is swept up in the frenzy and becomes infamous when his poem is stolen. This novel is a tribute to poetry and a critique of celebrity culture.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian Prousky spent most of his life as two distinct people. The first held a day job and raised a family and was public and sociable. The second ruminated over sentences and wrote books in secret and dreamed of a living a literary life. They shared little in common, mostly their obsessions – with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Mozart, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolano, tennis and hockey.

Somehow, summoning up a kind of courage or resolve he’d assumed was absent from his DNA, the first Brian Prousky left his day job, revealed his secret and dedicated himself full-time to writing. And the two Brian Prouskys became one. Now the author of four novels, Auden Triller (Is A Killer), God Might Forgive Gershwin Burr, The Anna Geller Invention and Healing Brian Esseintes, as well as a collection of short stories, Jupiter the Stupider, and two books of poetry, Body of Winter and Meeting Poems, he lives and works in Toronto, where most of his characters, who struggle with secret and often conflicted lives of their own, and who never quite fit in, do as well.