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Vivian Schilling is a novelist as well as a screenwriter and film-actress. Her first book, Sacred Prey, was released in 1996 to critical acclaim and garnered the Golden Scroll for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. She has starred in seven films, among them, Germans, a World War II drama based on the renowned stage play by Leon Kruzchowski, directed by Academy Award Nominee, Zbigniew Kaminski. Her much anticipated second novel, the epic thriller Quietus, was released in hardback in 2002 by Hannover House.
Her official website is http://www.vivianschilling.com.
Quietus
quietus:
1. a finishing stroke
2. discharge or release from life
3. the moment of death
Regaining consciousness in a Boston hospital soon after her chartered flight crashes into the treacherous White Mountains of New Hampshire, Kylie O'Rourke finds the world around her irrevocably altered. She is haunted by memories of the crash: though she was trapped within the wreckage, she recalls wandering through the icy mountainside and speaking with the other passengers, including one who had died upon impact. Seized by a growing sense of guilt and paranoia, Kylie fights to hang onto her life despite increasing evidence that she is living on borrowed time.
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Vivian Schilling's Summer Reading List
The Wandering Hill
by Larry McMurtry
As an avid McMurtry reader, this is one I won't miss. The Wandering Hill is the second volume in McMurtry's The Berrybender Narratives. The first, Sin Killer, was a fast read that left me wanting more of the outlandish Berrybenders. The series is basically the Old West meets a group of stuffy English elite. The result is comedic melodrama with McMurtry's dark edge to keep you guessing.
Summer of Night
by Dan Simmons
I was recently in the mood for a ghost story when I stumbled upon A Winter Haunting. I loved it so much that I'm going back for the prequel, Summer of Night. I had never read anything of Simmons's before and was completely blown away with his mastery of the supernatural. Summer of Night is about a group of small-town boys who share a haunting summer together.
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
After The Hours my curiosity was piqued to read the classic which served as its inspiration. Woolf's style is so original, so free that I find myself reading her prose for the sheer melody of it. I expect nothing less of Mrs. Dalloway, which chronicles a day in the life of a prominent English woman.
The Secret Life of Bees: A Novel
by Sue Monk Kidd
I've had several friends recommend this debut novel that explores the complexity of mother/daughter relationships. Set in the South, it's the story of a fourteen-year-old white girl who is taken in by a trio of black beekeeping sisters.
Rebecca's Daughters
by Dylan Thomas
Considering my next novel centers around an immigrant family from Wales, I'm told this lighthearted Welsh classic is a must. It's about a band of peasants disguised as women rising up against the gentry.
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