Uncivil X

by Chris Vise

Overview

In this autobiographical novel, eighteen-year-old Chris Rhodes embarks on a personal journey in the grunge era of the early 1990s from his rural Georgia childhood to life in Atlanta. His story is one among the sixty-five million members of Generation X that is unique to him and rooted in the common threads of experience shared across his generation. From facing the storms and aftermath of a disintegrating family to working in country radio, college, facing the challenges of broken promises, learning to forgive an abusive childhood and escaping the walls around and within him.

This is the follow-up to his 2020 debut novel, Dweller On The Boundary. Chris Rhodes, a shy misfit, seeks to find himself in the AIDS and safe-sex eras of gay culture, an increasingly globalized society, culture wars and in the mysteries of the crossed human heart. Uncivil X is at times humorous, often shocking, painfully poignant and a scandalous confessional.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185842577
Publisher:	Chris M. Vise
Publication date:	12/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	726,180
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

I am a Generation X gay writer. You cannot be much more outside the mainstream of popular writing than that in the 2020s. After years of living in the city of Atlanta, I have moved to a house on a hill just over a river somewhere between Athens, Georgia and Atlanta. I can listen to an owl at night, see the stars again and there is even a hawk that drops by to sit on my back fence in hopes of catching one of my squirrels. The country boy in my heart is again satisfied and if I need to answer the call of a city that sometimes haunts me like an aching joint then I can drive to Atlanta, though I kind of prefer Athens these days.

I was born on a hill in New Hope, Georgia and left in the 1990s to live on Ponce de Leon Avenue in an old factory in Atlanta. Once I had my fill, I moved to an 1800s Victorian mansion in Louisville, Old Louisville to be more precise. I had no plans of returning to Georgia, but circumstances called me back. I returned to Atlanta and as I once told a friend, I was afraid that if I did move back to Atlanta that it would snare me and I never would leave. It held me until 2021 and now I'm somewhere over a river, through some woods and atop a hill.

My hobbies are hiking, reading, photography, chess, gardening and travel. I am an avid music listener and enjoy many genres from rock to classical and jazz. My favorite rock band is R.E.M. and my favorite classical composer is Erik Satie.

I spent a significant part of my adult life in radio and television broadcasting. I worked locally and at the network level. I appeared on radio stations from New York to LA. I am no longer behind a microphone and at times I do miss it. Someone once said to me that radio was a disease that gets in your blood and it never leaves you, I agree.

I have a serious addiction to coffee and like to sample the local coffee shops when I travel. Old cemeteries are also places I like to wander through. I am happy in the middle of the wilderness, a beach or in a city center - just allow me some quiet time to relax.