ISBN: 0-88739-544-9
pp. 102
Size: 5 x 7.25
Pub Date: 09/2003
Price: $13.95
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Three Eighty-One
David J. Marx
"Trevor Minton is a well-adjusted man, living a pretty familiar version of the American dream. He?s a public relations executive in San Francisco, has a lovely wife and three children. Everything changes when their baby asphyxiates on a button eye from a stuffed animal that Trevor had given the infant. Emotionally crippled by this tragedy, Trevor walks out of his house, leaving his family behind. Unable to cope with his former life, he chooses a new existence as a cab driver, working night and day, driving fares around the city, journeying through the hidden realms of his soul. Redeemed through the interactions he inherits with his new vocation, Trevor mourns the loss of his previous world, while building back the Trevor Minton that it turns out had never abandoned him. His pilgrimage leads him to the dankest corners of San Francisco, and ultimately back to where he'd begun.
Review: "Quirky characters commingle with family tragedies in this tough cab ride through San Francisco streets. The reader is kept guessing till the last page, whether it is tragedy or redemption that will haunt this life of quiet desperation."
--Alejandro Murguía, author of This War Called Love
"This first novel is a gem. David Marx delivers San Francisco, flesh and bones, in a riveting story that is warm, tough, and masterfully written. Here are ordinary people snared by the extraordinary, delivered to our hearts, minds, and imaginations."
--Neeli Cherkovski, author of Bukowski: A Life and Ferlinghetti
Bio: David J. Marx lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family. Among several past careers has been a cab driver in both Chicago and San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Masters Program in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California.
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