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Vincent Eaton

Vincent Eaton

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VincentEaton is a storyteller in words, images and performance. His novel,SELF- PORTRAIT OF SOMEONE ELSE, was first published by VikingPenguin, New York, in 1989 and was re-issued in 2009. His humorbook, “HOW TO FIND YOURSELF (or a reasonable facsimile)” was alsopupblishing in 2009 by Hidden People Publishing. Hiswork has appeared in The Cortland Review, The Barcelona Review, TheFray, Other Voices Magazine, On the Page, The Wooster Review, TheTonaph Review. Theaterplays have won awards in the USA and Europe, most recently MAX DIX,ZERO TO SIX won best original play (FEATS, Stockholm, 2008) and theGeorgeTaylor Memorial Award inthe UK's National Drama Festival Association Playwriting Competitionfor 2007/2008;BOOM won the Mervyn Brisco award (FEATS, The Hague, 2006), STAY wonbest original play plus Mervyn Brisco award (FEATS, Brussels, 1984);THE MAN WHO WOULD FLOAT AWAY was a multi-nominated, award winning,comedy-drama at the Washington D.C. Theater Festival, 1998). He alsowrites, directs, edits short videos and digital stories, and is avoice actor. Born in California, he is based in Europe.

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

Story Behind The Book

From the New York Times Sunday Review: Vincent Eaton's dark, angry and intense first novel uses police documents, psychological evaluations, interviews, straight narration and interior monologues to chronicle the self-destruction of Tim Buckles. At 28, Buckles appears at first to be leading a normal life. He has a steady job as a lifeguard, a bungalow in Los Angeles and a loving girlfriend named Alisa. The problem is, he feels as if he's living someone else's life. When Alisa becomes pregnant, she encourages him to take a job in her father's business. Tim's feelings of alienation escalates. A drowning and then a disastrous visit to his elderly parents, who have become more miserable with the years, push Tim over the edge. ** “...striking first novel.... ...the devastating consequences of Tim's traumatic family dynamics, captured powerfully in dialogue and brief vignettes, provide a powerfully destructive counter force, with devastating consequences. Eaton's harsh, unsparing tale jolts the reader, holding us uncomfortably close to Tim's commingled criminal insanity and humanity. o Publisher's Weekly From Publisher's Weekly “...striking first novel.... The devastating consequences of Tim's traumatic family dynamics, captured powerfully in dialogue and brief vignettes, provide a powerfully destructive counter force... ...unsparing tale jolts the reader, holding us uncomfortably close to Tim's commingled criminal insanity and humanity. From Bridgeport Post Mr. Eaton concocts a puzzle out of a depraved childhood, multiple murder mysteries, flashbacks, hallucinations, a love story and self-analysis. ...a brave literary debut about an intelligent man who, struggling to understand and control his rage at his past, ''realizes himself away”.

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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;">From the New York Times Sunday Review:</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;">Vincent Eaton's dark, angry and intense first novel uses police documents, psychological evaluations, interviews, straight narration and interior monologues to chronicle the self-destruction of Tim Buckles. At 28, Buckles appears at first to be leading a normal life. He has a steady job as a lifeguard, a bungalow in Los Angeles and a loving girlfriend named Alisa. The problem is, he feels as if he's living someone else's life. When Alisa becomes pregnant, she encourages him to take a job in her father's business. Tim's feelings of alienation escalates. A drowning and then a disastrous visit to his elderly parents, who have become more miserable with the years, push Tim over the edge.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;"></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;">**</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;">“<em>...striking first novel.... ...the devastating consequences of Tim's traumatic family dynamics, captured powerfully in dialogue and brief vignettes, provide a powerfully destructive counter force, with devastating consequences. Eaton's harsh, unsparing tale jolts the reader, holding us uncomfortably close to Tim's commingled criminal insanity and humanity. </em> </p> <ul><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><em>Publisher's Weekly</em></p> </li> </ul><p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left"></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;"></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left">From Publisher's Weekly</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left">“...striking first novel.... The devastating consequences of Tim's traumatic family dynamics, captured powerfully in dialogue and brief vignettes, provide a powerfully destructive counter force... ...unsparing tale jolts the reader, holding us uncomfortably close to Tim's commingled criminal insanity and humanity.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left"></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left">From Bridgeport Press</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;" align="left">Mr. Eaton concocts a puzzle out of a depraved childhood, multiple murder mysteries, flashbacks, hallucinations, a love story and self-analysis. ...a brave literary debut about an intelligent man who, struggling to understand and control his rage at his past, ''realizes himself away”.</p>