The Illest: A Novella
Ran Walker
(Author)
Description
The year is 1997, and Troy Dobbs has just graduated from Ellison-Wright College in Atlanta. For Troy's graduation gift, his Aunt Flo allows him to housesit her Brooklyn Heights brownstone for a month while she travels abroad.
For the first week, things are cool and uneventful, but when a beautiful movie star shows up at his front door to return something she borrowed from his aunt, Troy's humdrum vacation is tranformed into an adventure that he will never forget.
The Illest is a novella with twists and turns that explore the vulnerabilities of getting to really know someone beyond the public facade.
Product Details
Price
$12.00
$11.16
Publisher
45 Alternate Press, LLC
Publish Date
July 31, 2019
Pages
138
Dimensions
5.25 X 8.0 X 0.32 inches | 0.36 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781020001086
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About the Author
Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of 31 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi. He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's 2019 National Indie Author of the Year Award (selected by judges from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, IngramSpark, St. Martin's Press, and Writer's Digest), the 2019 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the 2018 Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the 2021 Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and serves as a Contributing Editor with Writer's Digest. He lives in Virginia with his wife and much better half, Lauren, and his amazing daughter, Zoë.
