'Glasnost' by Author Rhett van Breda and 'Missioning It' by Author Rhett van Breda

New author is about to unleash his first two novels for the public's delectation. Glasnost is set in a boarding school and deals with issues of authorship, hypocrisy and morality. Missioning It is a book about the struggle for survival against overwhelming odds and the chance for happiness in the modern era. This release will be followed up by a formal announcement in 2 weeks.

(PRWEB) April 29, 2007 -- New author is about to unleash his first two novels for the public's delectation. Glasnost is set in a boarding school and deals with issues of authorship, hypocrisy and morality. Missioning It is a book about the struggle for survival against overwhelming odds and the chance for happiness in the modern era. This release will be followed up by a formal announcement in 2 weeks.

Glasnost is a literary novel, and its matter is the contemporary terrain of desperation and isolation. It is driven more by character and situation than narrative. Rhett van Breda has a remarkable ear for imagined, poetic, internal dialogue which he uses to good effect to advance events; this technique is perhaps the first thing that strikes the critical reader. Not every writer can achieve this.

This novel is not really mainstream material, it is not for everyone. fine. But if the reader does enter this rather hermetic, introspective world that Rhett has created, he or she will find themselves involved and unable to leave. What on earth will happen next, we ask ourselves, and in fact has anything happened? It can also be read as something of a novel of rites-of-passage, of the advancing and the progress, perhaps to peace, of the restless spirit.

It is almost introverted, internal, and intellectually demanding, and on another level, it seems to connect with nothing significant; does all this really matter? Yes, because the novel speaks for the torments and horrors of Everyman. The reader must decide; and is that not a message, a valid creative point in itself? The prose is fluid. Rhett uses the language of the street with effect: the images of internal alienation are integral to the entirety of the work. It is introspective. the treatments of contemporary malaise add an element of mystery and richness to the text. the language is effective.

While not for every reader, GLASNOST should attract a readership. It expresses a contemporary wish to express the confusion of reality. I hope that doesn't sound pretentious, because this is certainly not a pretentious book.

This is a large, painterly book that gives itself the space to develop around and through its theme. It is not a terribly easy read, but it has massive creative strength. Mainstream it is not; but it could well attract a substantial readership among those to whom facile escapism is not the first thing for which they look in a book.

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