The Next Thing eBook Peter Bartczak Claire BrazilValentine
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THE NEXT THING is a 40,000 word tragic-comedic coming of age story and a commentary on society, addiction, and relationships. Mark is a conflicted, starving artist in his twenties running from a past he can’t forgive himself for. He finds a mutated form of acceptance from the cream of the crud (outlaws, artists, and fringe dwellers) living in an abandoned town evacuated in the path of a mountain slowly cutting its way across the U.S., moving a mile a day. It is the tip of a 13 mile long splinter coming off of a tectonic plate. The mountain is a slow motion catastrophe that the country loses interest in and it falls into the cultural background.
After meeting the girl of his dreams while he’s painting a mural at his drug dealer’s crash pad, he follows her to the Hippie Hotel, a hippie commune on a barge attached to the back of the mountain (the groove cut by the mountain fills up with sea water), supposedly rescuing lost souls but actually being the site of a non stop pajama party.
After a tour of the commune (which is cobbled together from random pieces of houses and other buildings left in the wake of destruction) and some of its denizens, Mark spends the worst night of his life sleeping with Maria and bolts from the commune the next day to scurry up the mountain, where an insane holy woman leads him to an abandoned army base deep underground. Trying to return to the town, he stumbles across a giant indoor marijuana growing operation and becomes partners with the woman running it. It’s the first job that he takes seriously, because of his fondness for pot. He learns the value of hard work because of his worst vice.
They have to abandon the operation when they find out that the base was created to stop the mountain by severing the splinter where it joined the tectonic plate. To do that, the pot operation has to be shut down prematurely. They do the honorable thing in the end because Mark had grown up in the meantime.
Unless something matters in a person’s life, that person is capable of cruel things without being cruel themselves. How do you get something to matter? I show how that can happen.
The book also lays bare the artist’s creative process. There are passages where the artist is painting or drawing and I capture exactly what is going on in his head during the act as well as the down to earth steps of drawing or painting.
As a freelance artist for over 35 years (you can check out my website www.clownbank.com), I have had many different clients, an eclectic range of work, and a very colorful life, with enough time to ponder life and the universe. I have written and illustrated a children’s book, as well as several science fiction short stories, a murder mystery (based partially on my experiences as a street artist on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf & unpublished), and many essays and movie reviews .
I am currently working on a novel about a man who wins the lottery and uses the money to trace where jokes come from as well as writing a monthly column for a local newspaper.
The Next Thing eBook Peter Bartczak Claire BrazilValentine
I know Peter Bartczak to be a talented and prolific visual artist, muralist, illustrator, and musician. The seminal and characteristically human part of all of us that creates our reality, which, for most of us, flows deep within, imbues the entire of Peter's life. I find it strangely appropriate that I am reviewing Mr. Bartczak's book before I read it. Somehow, I know that my review will be accurate, and "The Next Thing" will be both bizarre and evocative. Trust me; it will be a wild ride.I read Peter's book, and here are my impressions.
Just as I suggested, Peter Bartczak's novella, "The Next Thing", is a page turner. To say that it is exciting only begins to tell the story.
Mr. Bartczak's work is clearly a study in masculine vulnerability, an emotional condition that is conspicuously absent from the unrealistically limited palate of feelings that has come to be standard issue for the male action hero who paws the ground in most popular American fiction. Indeed, vulnerability is a valuable card for the American heroine and one that has won her and her sisters many a hand. Too often, though, a vulnerable male faces long odds with any lovely woman who longs for a bright future with the dashing man who wishes to woo her; thus, our traditional American male lead insists upon wearing confidence to the ball rather than vulnerability. Obviously, the American hero is not afraid to gamble, but he has an undeniably positive and cheerful attitude in the face of any dire twists of fate, and it is easy to believe that, in the end, he wins.
Peter is willing to be considerably more honest than most of us about male vulnerability. Remember that he is a muralist, and painting murals is often, of necessity, performance art. The muralist who paints in public is like a musician who performs before an audience: he must put himself on display along with his talent, and should he wish his art to convey any viable emotional message, he must own at least some of his vulnerability. Peter takes the powerful position of owning it all.
Predictably, the result is as emotionally charged and evocative as it is exciting. Fasten your seat belt and make sure that your tender feelings are wedged tightly beneath the dashboard. You are, indeed, in for a wild ride.
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The Next Thing eBook Peter Bartczak Claire BrazilValentine Reviews
The Next Thing does what few pieces of writing ever do it has created its own genre, the first dysdopian novel. Nanosecond for nanosecond and toke for toke, it out Cheech and Chongs Cheech and Chong. It echoes the world of Philip K. Dick, The Twilight Zone, and even Catcher in the Rye. Anyone who has spent time in any of the various counter cultures in the late twentieth century will feel welcome in Peter Bartczak's zany universe. Anyone who hasn't can join the party by downloading The Next Thing.
Peter Bartczak has written a totally compelling apocalyptic tale. The Next Thing is a hauntingly original journey through isolation, abandonment, and grief. In Bartczak's world out of kilter, the earth is shaking both metaphorically and literally. We pass through the dream world into a dark and buried place of secrets, and finally into healing and redemption. A fascinating and intense journey, exquisitely written and ultimately inspiring.
Claire Braz-Valentine
Just finished reading THE NEXT THING by Peter Bartczak, a pleasant, easy read pager-turner sci-fi. Nice character development and the story never stalls. There's just enough twists 'n turns to keep you interested. I highly recommend this book if you're looking to forget about life's troubles for a while and want to immerse yourself into a story with a great plot. Kudos to Peter Bartczak!
I know Peter Bartczak to be a talented and prolific visual artist, muralist, illustrator, and musician. The seminal and characteristically human part of all of us that creates our reality, which, for most of us, flows deep within, imbues the entire of Peter's life. I find it strangely appropriate that I am reviewing Mr. Bartczak's book before I read it. Somehow, I know that my review will be accurate, and "The Next Thing" will be both bizarre and evocative. Trust me; it will be a wild ride.
I read Peter's book, and here are my impressions.
Just as I suggested, Peter Bartczak's novella, "The Next Thing", is a page turner. To say that it is exciting only begins to tell the story.
Mr. Bartczak's work is clearly a study in masculine vulnerability, an emotional condition that is conspicuously absent from the unrealistically limited palate of feelings that has come to be standard issue for the male action hero who paws the ground in most popular American fiction. Indeed, vulnerability is a valuable card for the American heroine and one that has won her and her sisters many a hand. Too often, though, a vulnerable male faces long odds with any lovely woman who longs for a bright future with the dashing man who wishes to woo her; thus, our traditional American male lead insists upon wearing confidence to the ball rather than vulnerability. Obviously, the American hero is not afraid to gamble, but he has an undeniably positive and cheerful attitude in the face of any dire twists of fate, and it is easy to believe that, in the end, he wins.
Peter is willing to be considerably more honest than most of us about male vulnerability. Remember that he is a muralist, and painting murals is often, of necessity, performance art. The muralist who paints in public is like a musician who performs before an audience he must put himself on display along with his talent, and should he wish his art to convey any viable emotional message, he must own at least some of his vulnerability. Peter takes the powerful position of owning it all.
Predictably, the result is as emotionally charged and evocative as it is exciting. Fasten your seat belt and make sure that your tender feelings are wedged tightly beneath the dashboard. You are, indeed, in for a wild ride.
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