Edward Adrift

by Craig Lancaster

Overview

It’s been a year of upheaval for Edward Stanton, a forty-two-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s lost his job. His trusted therapist has retired. His best friends have moved away. And even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has been disrupted. All of this change has left Edward, who lives his life on a rigid schedule, completely flummoxed.

But when his friend Donna calls with news that her son Kyle is in trouble, Edward leaves his comfort zone in Billings, Montana, and drives to visit them in Boise, where he discovers Kyle has morphed from a sweet kid into a sullen adolescent. Inspired by dreams of the past, Edward goes against his routine and decides to drive to a small town in Colorado where he once spent a summer with his father—bringing Kyle along as his road trip companion. The two argue about football and music along the way, and amid their misadventures, they meet an eccentric motel owner who just might be the love of Edward’s sheltered life—if only he can let her.

Endearing and laugh-out-loud funny, Edward Adrift is author Craig Lancaster’s sequel to 600 Hours of Edward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611099058
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Craig Lancaster is a journalist who has worked at newspapers all over the country, including the San Jose Mercury News, where he served as lead editor for the paper’s coverage of the BALCO steroids scandal. He wrote 600 Hours of Edward—winner of a Montana Book Award honorable mention and a High Plains Book Award—in less than 600 hours during National Novel Writing Month in 2008. His other books include the novel The Summer Son and the short story collection Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. Lancaster lives in Billings, Montana, with his wife.

Editorial Reviews

...Edward Stanton is one of the more distinct and interesting characters you’ll encounter in contemporary fiction, and it’s never dull accompanying him. Edward Adrift, like 600 Hours before it, is such a well-written, big-hearted book that its pages fly by and will leave its readers no doubt hoping for a trilogy.” —Billings Gazette

“Mr. Lancaster has triumphed again. With remarkable speed, he has made himself into one of Montana’s most important writers.” —The Billings Outpost

“Edward Stanton is back! And he returns in a darkly funny novel that’s frequently lyrical and exhibits an uncanny grace. Once again, Craig Lancaster blesses us with a glimpse of universal emotions, and how the turnings of a human heart can be simple and complex at the same time.” —Ron Franscell, bestselling author of The Sourtoe Cocktail Club

“It’s hard to know who I adore more: Craig Lancaster’s character Edward Stanton or Lancaster himself for creating him.” —Jessica Park, bestselling author of Flat-Out Love

“Edward Adrift is that rarest of things: a sequel that is actually better than its predecessor. In the case of Craig Lancaster’s new book, that’s saying a lot because I loved 600 Hours of Edward with all the passionate joy of a botanist discovering a new butterfly. That first novel possessed a distinct voice told by a unique character who immediately endeared himself to the reader. Now, in Edward Adrift, Lancaster deepens our understanding of 42-year-old Edward Stanton, who is plowing through the world in spite of (or perhaps because of) his Asperger’s. Edward Adrift is richer, funnier, and even more moving than our first encounter with the man obsessed with time and temperature.” —David Abrams, author of Fobbit

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