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"Tom Wolfe comes along and says that nobody's writing
about big social themes...
nobody's Balzac anymore, nobody's writing big sprawling novels of societal
concerns."
Richard Ford, interviewed by Dave Weich on Powells.com
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'Plimsoll tells all in his memoir "WMD Machete;"
the romance of a hitchhiker's escape into tropical Latin America,
sucked into the maelstrom of another culture.
Mark Plimsoll details a global citizen's birth
through the fires of culture shock and Post Traumatic Stress.
In his epic true-life memoir, he chronicles six months
of fearless, adventurous, dangerous and romantic travel
that culminates with a new relationship.
Their first night together, a huge earthquake
stops a war, but kills twenty-two thousand people.'
"The best book we've ever read. My wife
and I both enjoyed it."
Jack and Ruth Lane, avid readers, both over 80 years old.
"Taboos against talk of politics, money, religion,
and procreation create societies full of slaves to tradition."
Mark Plimsoll
Plimsoll's humorous keyhole snapshots of realities in collision
mirror our own "foreigness" from a perspective totally immersed in
another culture.
The streamlined and colorful prose paints a line around an overloaded world,
below which we find the essence and romance of human nature,
which our technologically digital, oil and automobile addicted 'developed' world
forgot.
(Listen
to Author Interview)
His hitchhiking adventures took him alone across Canada and around the U.S.,
to Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Mexico, and into Guatemala.
There, just twenty two years old, he witnessed an Earthquake kill 22,000 people.
He's lived in eighteen cities and four countries,
underemployed as maid, hospital orderly, lifeguard, rock musician,
songwriter, portrait artist, English instructor,
computer technician and programmer, photographer, housepainter, etc., etc.,
etc.
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E-mail: Mark Plimsoll