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South

A Novel

AvRichard Ploetz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A mosaic of grief, a lifetime of love and loss, rendered with the cadence of HemingwaySouth is a novel about grief, marriage, artistic ambition, and the search for home. Told through interconnected stories and journal entries, it follows Bert Staub, an aspiring writer, and Trudy Steiner, a painter, from their first meeting in upstate New York through years in rural Vermont, New Haven, and New York City.Within their seemingly idyllic marriage, the fissures that were once obscured become evident as the couple grapples with the loss of their child in a premature birth. In the wake of this monumental loss, Bert and Trudy leave their hometown to live off the grid in rural Vermont, where the symptoms of unresolved grief begin to take their toll.Over the next decade, Bert and Trudy’s marriage steadily falters under the weight of monotony and unfulfilled ambition, and the American dream as envisioned by the two young idealists begins to lose its center. In an attempt to revitalize their youth, they depart to live as artists in 1980s New York City. As they struggle to come to terms with their persistent discontent—both with themselves and each other—the story delicately unfolds and, in the minutiae and depth of their experiences, articulates the neuroses of lives lived in quiet despair.In this devastating debut, Ploetz writes with intelligence and intoxicating honesty, reminding us of the essential beauty found not in righteousness or ambition, but in the complexity of the lives we live beneath our brittle ideals.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Arcade
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN:9781648211997

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Richard Ploetz is a playwright, poet, and novelist. He received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and studied playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. He has published short stories and poems in The Quarterly, Outerbridge, Crazy Quilt, Timbuktu, American Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry, among other literary magazines. In addition to his other work, Ploetz collaborated with the late comic book artist Clément Oubrerie on the children’s book The Kooken and the cartoon series Nedtoons. Ploetz’s plays have been produced in New York City at the WPA Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre Genesis, La MaMa ETC, Emerging Artists Theatre, and Theater for the New City. He is a longtime writing instructor at the Lehman College Adult Learning Center. For additional information visit his website: www.richardploetz.com

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"Spare, searing, Richard Ploetz's South is the portrait of an American marriage you need to read. Effortlessly winding its way through decades of love and hope and despair, South conjures the intimacies of a human relationship like few contemporary novels do. You won't forget Bert or Trudy."—Ross Barkan, author of Glass Century and Colossus“This is a remarkable book. Ploetz has an extraordinary ear.”—Matthew Gasda, author of The Sleepers and Dimes Square“At once intimate and far-reaching, South follows one man’s search for meaning while echoing a larger American struggle to live up to its highest ideals.”—Stephen Yaffe, playwright and screenwriter“Ploetz describes a character in South as ‘a flamingo at a blackbird party.’ He’s a blackbird at a flamingo party of lesser writers: melodic, harsh, resourceful, and more than capable of recognizing human faces, hearts, and souls."—Bruce Wagner“Richard Ploetz’ South is a rule-bending suite of episodes orbiting the life of Bert Staub, a writer blazing a trail through a series of inventions and reinventions of his life. The novel moves via an organized mixture of chapters that can (and several have) stand on their own as stories and first-person journals.”—Jon Lavieri