David Marlow Knihy

I Loved You Wednesday is a novel about temporary commitments. For Chris and Steve, love develops out of a friendship rooted in their common struggle for that one big break on the TV networks or on Broadway. They must face the rejections and disappointments, readings, and tryouts. Zany, sympathetic, and intensely alive, Chris and Steve live each day with all the verve and delight of a Holly Golightly whose diamonds are the lights of Broadway, but love on Wednesday may not be love on Thursday, for today's (1975) 'liberated' generation often plans futilely to fulfill dreams of permanent relationships. The love they share is sadly outgrown as their horizons widen. Tears and laughter join in I Loved You Wednesday to present the total experience of the young lovers living in the mid 1970's.

SURREAL ESTATE, David Marlow's wondrous and terrifying novel, calls to mind the cunning satire of Thomas Berger and Fay Weldon, the emotional vigor of A.M. Homes, and the plot-driven intensity of Stephen King.Dewey Walsey and his pregnant wife, Judith, have fled Hollywood to escape the disastrous, career-wrecking failure of "Silver Rainbow", the western epic he wrote. Their peaceful summer on an unpopulated island in Maine turns ominous as strange and surreal events begin to occur around their isolated cottage. Dewey begins to wonder if Judith's history of mental illness isn't to blame for these bizarre occurrences.On the day of a monstrous early winter blizzard, the electricity fails and Judith goes into labor, weeks ahead of schedule, and suffers a profound nervous breakdown. Alone against the elements, Dewey must deliver their premature baby while also caring for his wife's sudden and harrowing predicament.Alternating the reins of narration, Dewey and Judith each clarify their side of what they say really happened. Along the way, Marlow keeps tightening the suspense until the macabre puzzle comes together in a hair-raising finale.SURREAL ESTATE is an unsettling, darkly comic tale, full of startling secrets and never-racking surprises.

Somewhere off the Southern State Parkway in Nassau County, NY is the thown of "Waterfield" and in it is Waterfield High School, attended by, among Ro-Anne Sommers, crowned Little Miss Eastern United States, now ponytailed and prettiest-girl-at-school-best-cheerleader, at fifteen making out in a Chevy backseat with...Corky Henderson, his father's little man since age three, now star quarterback, king of the jocks, with only those between-game nightmares threatening his future perfect, the subject of the special dreams of...Amy Silverstein, not-so-lovely to look at, smart, the flip side of Ro_Anne, a born late-blooer, partner in spirit of...Guy Fowler, brainy, pint-sized, the flip side of Corky...or so it would seem...Five years later, at the class of '59's reunion, you can hardly tell the players by their names. What happened, how and why is the story of Yearbook. It is also the story of anyone who has ever been young, who remembers his or her senior prom with its "shining, mirrored ball, spinning, fragmenting rality." It is a story of growing up in America.

Kip, Ron, and Gary-three more unlikely roommates you'd be hard put to find. But this is the Big Apple, where anything was possible, and this was the go-go sixties, when instant stardom happened overnight. Three very different guys, each with his own hunger and fantasy, drawn together by their mutual belief that winning is everything. They rise, they fall-in ways that you could never predict, through turns of fate you could never imagine. Their glories, their loves, their anguish and their triumphs-you'll feel like you've lived their lives, and the lives of the people who love them, in the pages of a novel you will simply not be able to put down.