While In Darkness There Is Light

by Louella Bryant, Howard Dean

Overview

For many young men, it is not until they strip away everything they've known that they can begin to live according to the morals and values they believe are truly their own. Some fall victim to poor judgment and an ingenuous trust in human nature that leads them to suffer deadly consequences. In 1970 a group of young American ex-pats from wealthy families dropped out of college and establish Rosebud Farm in Far North Queensland to establish their ideal society. When Charlie Dean, a headstrong farm resident for the past year, decides to leave and explore Southeast Asia, he and an Australian companion are captured by Laotian communists and held in a rainforest prison camp. In spite of the Dean family's efforts, both young men suffer an unthinkable fate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798330231874
Publisher:	Audible Publishing Services
Publication date:	06/12/2024
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Louella Bryant is the author of WHILE IN DARKNESS THERE IS LIGHT (Black Lawrence Press, 2008), which chronicles the events leading up to the death of Charlie Dean in 1974. She is also the author of the story collection Full Bloom, which won the Premier Award for Fiction. Her young adult novel The Black Bonnet was a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, and Father By Blood won the Silver Bay Children's Literature Award. Louella has been awarded numerous prizes for her short stories and poems, which have appeared in the magazines WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adirondack Review, Fine Print, Vermont Life, The Teacher's Voice, Farmhouse and Mobius, and the anthologies High Horse, Tartts 2-Incisive Fiction from Emerging Writers, and A Cadence of Horses. Her essays are included in the anthologies Far From Home, Lessons From Our Parents and Southern Sin as well as the magazines Atrium, Sacred Fire, and Vermont Quarterly. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program, Louella mentors writing students at the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf.

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Author's Note     xix
Laos, September 1974     23
Senior Prefect     29
Times A-Changing     39
Outward Bound     49
The Buck Nixon Club     55
Wallaby Roadkill     65
Treading Water     71
Sundowners     81
No Worries     93
The Rosebud Project     101
Big Mama     113
Respite     125
Barron Gorge     137
Bloomfield     145
Cape Tribulation     155
Black Marlin     163
Aussie Christmas     173
Melbourne     181
Pascoe River     193
Native Soil     199
Southeast Asia     203
Pathet Lao     215
Chapter 23     225
Afterword     231