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Ryan Winfield wrote a page-turner. Know that you may have to read beyond your bedtime. Know that you'll want to warn our hero,Trevor Roberts, away from a long list of evils--but to no avail. Trevor navigates treacherous waters in South of Bixby Bridge. Winfield has a direct, unadorned style that suits this contemporary story about a lonely young man with a sad past, a promising future, and confused priorities. You root for Trevor from the get-go, and that's Winfield's skill at creating a sympathetic character with a host of troubles. Winfield also nails setting descriptions. I walked around in Trevor's world while reading this novel. Too many authors ignore setting, as if all that matters is the action. But we care far more about what happens when we understand the world the characters inhabit; when we inhabit that world with them.
South of Bixby Bridge Review by
STEWART STERN
Ryan Winfield has been preparing himself all his life to produce the wonder to which this first novel ascends. It is a glorious debut for an artist who has never stopped inhaling all he sees or feels empathically for others during his own long climb out of the dark. He obeys Goya's caution that to be able to draw a man plunging off a roof the artist must complete the drawing before the jumper hits the ground and that requires thousands of practice drawings and the willingness to "fall with the man all the way."
In SOUTH OF BIXBY BRIDGE Ryan "falls with the man" and both, thank God, get unstuck from the pavement and live to tell the tale. As one of Ryan's many friends and teachers I commend - without reservation and to every one who reads or wants to write - this moving, funny, sexy, infinitely human book.
Stewart Stern, Screenwriter "Rebel Without a Cause"
South of Bixby Bridge Review by
Tierno
If you have not been to Hell and back it is hard to describe the journey. In his debut novel "South of Bixby Bridge" Ryan Winfield creates a vivid, sometimes painful, but always brutally honest portrait of the descent and climb that, like the rolling hills of Northern California lunge forward and then retreat and always provide surprises around the blind corners. Anyone who has hit bottom and tried to rebound will root for Trevor, a stockbroker fresh out of rehab trying to maintain his resolve to reclaim his life in a world determined to tempt and taunt him, and carrying the dark passenger of a past that haunts him and nearly broke him. There are no cliches here. Winfield carves sentences deftly and with laser-like precision. The depth and meaning of these paragraphs spring forward with crisp detail and vivid phrases so powerful you'll want to copy them to carry on a card in your wallet to read again and again. Early into the work I realize that this is not a derivative retread but fresh and new and at times shocking and unapologetic in showing the open wounds. Fans of John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac have an author for the new century. This is a novel to put beside well-worn copies of Cormac Mccarthy whose prose is matched. I hope Winfield's next novel is in print soon. This is a writer to watch.
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South of Bixby Bridge:: Description
Fresh out of drug rehab.
A young unemployed stockbroker, alone.
Struggling to survive the holidays on the San Francisco streets.
He wants his life back, he wants his girlfriend back.
Then his luck turns when he runs into just the right man--A charming, sadistic hedge-fund owner with an intoxicating wife.
Success, money, a second chance . . .
But sometimes second chances come with a price.
Sometimes the price is your soul.
Destined to reach the silver screen, this fast-paced first novel by Ryan Winfield is much more than a Hollywood hit--it's a gut-wrenching and ultimately uplifting story that grabs you from the first line and won't let go. With more twists than California's Highway 1, the intimate narrative follows a young man on a wild month-long ride to the dizzying, drunken heights of Napa Valley excess and down again through a phantasmagoria of hedonistic hell. "Shocking and unapologetic." "Fast, poetic prose loaded with images." "... a Gatsbyesque story for our Recessionary times." South of Bixby Bridge is a heartfelt journey of self-discovery--the story of a young man who thinks he has nowhere to go but up, until he discovers that sometimes the "bottom" is just the beginning.
With gripping drama, witty dialogue, and sexy, jaw-dropping glimpses into the underworld of California's über-rich, you won't be able to put this riveting new novel down. Buckle up and enjoy the read!
[ A review from Stewart Stern, the Emmy award winning screenwriter of "Sybil" and "Rebel Without a Cause." ]
"Ryan Winfield has been preparing himself all his life to produce the wonder to which this first novel ascends. It is a glorious debut for an artist who has never stopped inhaling all he sees or feels empathically for others during his own long climb out of the dark. He obeys Goya's caution that to be able to draw a man plunging off a roof the artist must complete the drawing before the jumper hits the ground and that requires thousands of practice drawings and the willingness to 'fall with the man all the way.'
In SOUTH OF BIXBY BRIDGE Ryan 'falls with the man' and both, thank God, get unstuck from the pavement and live to tell the tale. As one of Ryan's many friends and teachers I commend - without reservation and to every one who reads or wants to write - this moving, funny, sexy, infinitely human book."
--Stewart Stern, Screenwriter "Rebel Without a Cause"
What readers are saying:
"Powerful, riveting, dark and haunting!"
"Sexy, funny, and poignant with fantastic prose, this book is impossible not to enjoy."
"... the story barrels along, the characters jump off the page, and Winfield knows how to turn a phrase."
"I couldn't put this book down. I was addicted; a reading-addict addicted to a book about addiction."
"Water for the Elephants was my last favorite read and now I think this one has topped it."
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