Burning Alexis
by Brawn Sullivan
Billy Lee Harper, seventeen and a junior at West Sherman High, is in danger of flunking his English class because he just cannot get a paper written on Virgil. Desperate to avoid the F, he allows his good buddy Tom Delmenico to talk him into challenging the assignment, on the basis that Virgil’s writings, covering such topics as homosexuality and promiscuity, are immoral. Thus begins a protracted battle involving a variety of local civic leaders, some with an eye on their careers. Detailing a small-town political fight over a global issue, BURNING ALEXIS is at once laugh-out loud political satire and a contemporary morality tale.
DISCLAIMER FOR CATALOG; EARLY NOVELS
Note to My Readers on My Early Fiction: As many of you are aware, I was writing novels, and working with agents in New York, long before the idea of priesthood entered my mind. My early novels were consistently comic, even satirical, and they aimed to reach a general audience. Though the books are what Manhattan literary professionals refer to as “quality fiction,” they are hardly hagiography (that is, they are not books about saints). The general advisory “strong language, sexual situations” generally applies. We decided to bring some of the early novels into print because, frankly, they are good books; well worth reading. But I want my readers happy with their purchases, and so issue this advisory as well: Both BURNING ALEXIS and A RESTORATION COMEDY are highly political novels, ALEXIS leaning decidedly left and RESTORATION decidedly right. Just a precaution, should you be intrigued by either book and want to venture a bet, on buying it!
Fr. Brawn.
by Brawn Sullivan
Billy Lee Harper, seventeen and a junior at West Sherman High, is in danger of flunking his English class because he just cannot get a paper written on Virgil. Desperate to avoid the F, he allows his good buddy Tom Delmenico to talk him into challenging the assignment, on the basis that Virgil’s writings, covering such topics as homosexuality and promiscuity, are immoral. Thus begins a protracted battle involving a variety of local civic leaders, some with an eye on their careers. Detailing a small-town political fight over a global issue, BURNING ALEXIS is at once laugh-out loud political satire and a contemporary morality tale.
DISCLAIMER FOR CATALOG; EARLY NOVELS
Note to My Readers on My Early Fiction: As many of you are aware, I was writing novels, and working with agents in New York, long before the idea of priesthood entered my mind. My early novels were consistently comic, even satirical, and they aimed to reach a general audience. Though the books are what Manhattan literary professionals refer to as “quality fiction,” they are hardly hagiography (that is, they are not books about saints). The general advisory “strong language, sexual situations” generally applies. We decided to bring some of the early novels into print because, frankly, they are good books; well worth reading. But I want my readers happy with their purchases, and so issue this advisory as well: Both BURNING ALEXIS and A RESTORATION COMEDY are highly political novels, ALEXIS leaning decidedly left and RESTORATION decidedly right. Just a precaution, should you be intrigued by either book and want to venture a bet, on buying it!
Fr. Brawn.
by Brawn Sullivan
Billy Lee Harper, seventeen and a junior at West Sherman High, is in danger of flunking his English class because he just cannot get a paper written on Virgil. Desperate to avoid the F, he allows his good buddy Tom Delmenico to talk him into challenging the assignment, on the basis that Virgil’s writings, covering such topics as homosexuality and promiscuity, are immoral. Thus begins a protracted battle involving a variety of local civic leaders, some with an eye on their careers. Detailing a small-town political fight over a global issue, BURNING ALEXIS is at once laugh-out loud political satire and a contemporary morality tale.
DISCLAIMER FOR CATALOG; EARLY NOVELS
Note to My Readers on My Early Fiction: As many of you are aware, I was writing novels, and working with agents in New York, long before the idea of priesthood entered my mind. My early novels were consistently comic, even satirical, and they aimed to reach a general audience. Though the books are what Manhattan literary professionals refer to as “quality fiction,” they are hardly hagiography (that is, they are not books about saints). The general advisory “strong language, sexual situations” generally applies. We decided to bring some of the early novels into print because, frankly, they are good books; well worth reading. But I want my readers happy with their purchases, and so issue this advisory as well: Both BURNING ALEXIS and A RESTORATION COMEDY are highly political novels, ALEXIS leaning decidedly left and RESTORATION decidedly right. Just a precaution, should you be intrigued by either book and want to venture a bet, on buying it!
Fr. Brawn.