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Rob Williams (director of Role/Play, Make the Yuletide Gay, 3-Day Weekend, Back Soon and Long-Term Relationship)'s next project is The Mystic Chord, based on the novel "Van Allen's Ecstasy" by Jim Tushinski. The screenplay has won the NewDraft screenwriting competition at NewFest 2010. Van Allen's Ecstasy by Jim Tushinski
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Lethe Press (April 12, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1590212169
ISBN-13: 978-1590212165
Amazon: Van Allen's Ecstasy
What if you woke up one day and remembered nothing of your past?
Born into an extraordinarily talented family, 29-year-old Michael Van Allen is the gay son of a well-known concert pianist and an equally famous painter. All his life, he has yearned for the talent and creativity that should have been his birthright but have somehow been denied him. When he wakes up in a mental hospital, his memory gone, his former life erased, his doctor tells him of his screaming breakdown during one of his father's performances. Van Allen's Ecstasy is the story of Michael's journey in search of his former self. As he pieces together his forgotten life, Michael uncovers jealousy, obsession, and secret desires that threaten to destroy his sanity once again.
How could you rebuild your life if all you knew was what other people told you? Could you ever find your way back to being person you once were?
''Tushinski's debut novel is a harrowing and compelling descent into one man's world of interior rage, self-reconstruction, and reconciliation with the world. Tushinski's prose, bold and transformative, demands close reading, and rewards it.'' --Richard Labonte
