The Traveler's Companion

by David Foley

Overview

It's the summer of 1985. What do you do if you're just out of college and not quite out of the closet? Mark Dearborn's solution is to shed his girlfriend and his stuffy New England family and follow his adventurous friend Lint across the Atlantic. In Paris, they meet the compellingly erratic Ricka Stein along with priest-in-training Philip. When Ricka drags them all to Venice, Mark finds himself torn between a moody young Italian and an older American with an inconvenient boyfriend. Then a disastrous side trip to Rome rearranges everything. David Foley's wryly insightful first novel captures the excitement and confusion of getting lost, messing up, and breaking free.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045046954
Publisher:	David Foley
Publication date:	10/27/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	331 KB

About the Author

David Foley is a playwright and fiction writer living in New York. His plays have been performed in the United States, the UK, and across Europe. New York productions include NANCE O'NEIL and PARADISE with Blue Coyote Theater Group,THE LAST DAYS OF MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR, IN EXILE and CRESSIDA AMONG THE GREEKS at the Ohio Theatre, THE MURDERS AT ARGOS at FringeNYC, and A HOLE IN THE FENCE at the Ohio. CRESSIDA and A HOLE IN THE FENCE have also been produced at the White Bear Theatre in London. His play SUFFERING THE WITCH, winner of the Southwest Theatre Association Award, has been performed (as AMERICAN WITCH) at Théâtre de Poche in Brussels and at Théâtre Proscenium in Liege. Other plays include SAD HOTEL, MOTHER CALDWELL, and ANTINOUS, OR THE PROBLEM OF BEAUTY. His three-character thriller DEADLY MURDER (aka IF/THEN or DEADLY GAME) was nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award and is published by Samuel French. His other plays are published by Oberon Books in London. He has an MFA in Fiction Writing from New York University, where he teaches. He is working on his second novel.

Photo: Robert Flynt.