“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” by G.L. Barbour was displayed at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) – Book Gallery
“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” by G.L. Barbour was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 18–22, 2023.
This work does have a touch of murder mystery but is mainly a retrospective coming-of-age story as remembered by an 81-year-old man talking with high school seniors in 2020. He tries to keep his memories of the good stuff, but he cannot discipline the bad stuff to keep it out of his mind. Those memories led him back to the bottle and the return of his angst that he would be caught and punished for an ancient sin.
The Frankfurter Buchmesse, reportedly known as the world’s largest trade fair for books, opened its doors to participants around the globe celebrating books and their authors. The massive book fair also celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. Slovenia, their guest of honor this year, presented itself as a nation with a rich literary history in addition to being a desirable tourism destination.
It is the best platform for publishers and authors to engage with international audiences and share stories. This year, over 105,000 trade visitors from 130 countries and 110,000 audiences participated in this big event. This year attracted more visitors compared to last year when there were 93,000 trade visitors and 87,000 audiences. Over 2,600 activities were covered by more than 7,000 media professionals during the five days of the exhibition.
Author Reputation Press is dedicated to promoting literary connections between authors and readers. In line with this, ARP displayed several of its remarkable books at the largest book trade fair in the world. The book gallery was even more alluring because of the large variety of genres on exhibit.
The author, G.L. Barbour, is a retired academic physician in the Department of Veteran Affairs and at several medical schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. He retired as a professor of medicine and public health. During that forty-year career, he published more than 50 scientific articles, edited journal issues, and authored two books and several chapters on healthcare quality and improvement.
Since his formal retirement, he has written seven novels; each is set in a fictional hospital and portrays common personnel and management issues that affect healthcare quality, with attention given to a method to address those issues and improve the quality of care. These issues are framed as part of the overall response to unexpected deaths while also providing insight into police procedures and approaches to puzzling medical circumstances.
His other books include Naked Death, Death Unexpected, Twisted Death: A Campus Killer, Alibi For Death, and many more.
“Montana In The Rearview Mirror” is a narrative that begins with what appears to be a murder scene in the open country of mid-1950s northern Montana. The story is then recounted in the memories of an old man, Walt Dell, some 60 years later. The memories are stimulated by a social science study project. Three high school students in Springfield, IL, interview Walt about his memories of high school and his real-time reaction to the Hungarian Revolution.
Over a few months of twice-weekly interviews, the students begin to have some regard for Walt, and he begins to give them a picture of the 1950s. His memories include pre-teen activities, high school sports, dating, dancing, holidays, attitudes about the Revolution and racism, gardening, and growing up in a small rural town in northern Montana.
After each interview, Walt rethinks what he said to the students and slowly draws out old, painful memories of his high school years. Ultimately, the students complete the project and cease coming to Walt’s house. Two years after their graduation, however, they return to their social science teacher’s classroom and tell her of their activities. The students are excitedly planning to see Walt and are disappointed when they can’t talk with him.
Later, the teacher and Walt’s confidant reminisce, and the confidant tells her Walt’s story of what happened that day on the northern prairie that left a man dead and how Walt was running from that event all his life.
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