Meet author TOM WINTON
Tom Winton was born and raised in New York City. During his
working career he has done everything from pounding spikes on a railroad gang
in the Colorado Rockies to driving a taxicab in Manhattan. He’s also been a
mailman, a salesman, an entrepreneur and more. He lives in the Great Smoky
Mountains with his wife Blanche and their ill-tempered but loveable Jack
Russell terrier, Ginger.
Said to be a man who writes with
his pen dipped in his soul, Tom has been listed as one of Amazon's Top 100
"Most Popular Authors" in both Literary Fiction and in Mystery,
Thriller and Suspense. His bestselling novels have been likened to such
classics as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird and more. His titles are
Beyond Nostalgia, The Last American Martyr, Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost,
Within a Man's Heart, A Second Chance in Paradise, Forever Three, and a short
story collection The Voice of Willie Morgan.
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About, FOREVER
THREE- If ever there has been a story
to give voice to the joy and pain of love, it’s Forever Three.
For far too long author and nice guy Dean Cassidy has lived with the misfortune
of loving two women at once. Over and over his heart has been stretched,
wrenched, twisted, and bruised in an emotional tug-of-war.
Dean has loved his wife, Maddy, since long before they took their vows, but
after 22 years, he still can’t shake the memory of his childhood sweetheart,
Theresa Wayman. And now things are getting worse. Suddenly, the torturous
triangle is closing in on him like a three-sided vice.
Day after day Dean is pummeled by a dizzying, soul-numbing succession of guilt,
joy, tragedy and uncertainty. He’s all but lost the will to go on.
Nevertheless, the human spirit does not destruct easily. It is resilient and
tenacious. And as close to going down as Dean is, he’s determined to keep
swinging until the very end. The question is will it be enough?
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REVIEW OF FOREVER THREE. By Soooz Burke on Amazon.com
Having read and been deeply moved by ‘Beyond Nostalgia’ I was
delighted to find that author Tom Winton had penned a sequel.
Although this book can easily stand alone.
Life has pain in store at some point, for all of us.
It’s how we deal with that pain, and how we struggle, often unsuccessfully, to
move beyond it that alters the end game.
Author Tom Winton has tapped into that pain, that experience; the regrets, the
longing … and the destructive forces we humans carry within us to destroy what
we have, before it destroys us.
The character of Dean is a man, a complex, fallible man, and a man capable of
great love. He is equally capable of being blinded by what once was, at the
risk of losing what now is.
It is part of the human condition to wonder “What if?” To nurture and dream of
the ‘If only …’ in our lives.
This author has a deep gut level understanding of these demons that propel us.
He possesses the enviable gift of empathy, an empathy that draws us in, because
we recognize these characters, and the things within their nature that lay
buried within our own psyche.
He had me sighing in recognition with his beautifully penned words. Can any one
of us say honestly that they have not wondered at some point in their lives if
someone is out there that will always remember us with love and longing?
The characters of Therese and Maddy are equally complex. They have their own
demons. They share a history with this man, a love, a lifetime of sad regrets,
and a need to know which of them will be the acknowledged last love of his
life.
Author Tom Winton takes us on a journey in this book. A journey that compelled
me to read on, often blinded by tears, and just as often feeling anger and
frustration with the character of Dean.
These characters will affect you, they made me … feel. I became involved in
their lives. I was given the gift of belonging for a time within these pages.
That in my opinion is the measure of a wonderfully talented and gifted author.
I once said of Tom Winton that he ‘writes with a pen dipped in his soul.’
This book reinforces that completely.
If you are to read only one book in this genre this year, I
strongly recommend that you make it this one.
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