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Every Man Also by Robert Winship
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When Mason throws a football game for one hundred thousand dollars, little does he know the chain of events that he has set in motion. He goes to West Texas to the ranch of Raleigh Jones to meet the man who will bring his money, taking with him a female colleague to ensure his own safety. Here Mason and companion Frieda are swept up in the deep passions of the heart as they wait for the stranger from Illinois.
In this transcendent story of a man's greed turned charity, Robert Winship weaves his tale with the same fine prose he demonstrated in The Brushlanders.
ROBERT WINSHIP was born in Iraan, Texas, the son of a high school principal and part-time rancher. A graduate of Rice University, he played in the Cotton Bowl and East-West Shrine Game and then had a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. He spent many years selling oil and gas drilling and production equipment around the world. He now lives and writes at the Rockpile Ranch near Junction, Texas. Winship is author of The Brushlanders and a columnist for The Junction Eagle; his fiction and nonfiction prose have appeared in Concho River Review, Hawaii Review, RE Arts and Letters, and The Texas Review.
"Every Man Also is a thinking reader's novel, one that demands an emotional commitment from the very first page. From the tradition of Faulkner, Bob Winship has evoked a penetrating and bittersweet portrait of mid-life crisis, divided loyalty, unreasonable fear and betrayal. Winship's story is mapped by the exposed scars of human doubt, human compassion. His characters reflect a depth of personality and development that delves into a realistic introspection that evokes compassion and, often, pain. This is a highly realistic portrayal of one man's attempt to come to terms with the failure that he believes himself to be and, at the same time, his discovery that the measure of an individual's worth is to be found not on the surface or in the game, but somewhere darker and harder to reach, in the shadowy and sometimes wintery corners of the human heart. Winship's prose is heady and rhythmic. It takes on a life of its own as his characters' minds and emotions collide in the cathartic collision of fear and hope against a wilderness landscape. This is a haunting and memorable novel, a tour de force in the exploration of the modern dilemma." —Clay Reynolds
"Every Man Also is a courageous novel, for the story it tells is both bold and true, and the bold truth is always a hot product to handle. This is the story of men and of women and the messes they get themselves into and the way they get out, more often honorably than not. The writing here is fine indeed, and there are passages that are as good as any ever written in American literature." —Paul Ruffin
Every Man Also
ISBN 1-881515-19-2 paper $15.00
5 1/2x8 1/2. 172 pp.
Fiction.
Publication Date: April 1999.
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