HONEY FROM A LION

 

















NEW RELEASE!

Honey from a Lion is Fred Bassett’s love song to the American South. From the backwoods of rural Alabama to the Mountains of North Carolina, Bassett journeys through the bruised, beautiful heart of his homeland and into the hearts and minds of those who’ve gone before him – poets, novelists, historians, and philosophers. Part love story, part travelogue, part philosophical conversation, this is a ‘novel’ that transcends the parameters of the form. Readers who met the unforgettable Barsh Roberts as a boy in South Wind Rising will be pleased to find him all grown up and living on his own terms – a man of honor, integrity and refreshing self-awareness, a new kind of Southern gentleman for a new age.
     ~Margret Shinn Evans, Editor of Lowcountry

Weekly Married with an eleven-year-old daughter, Barsh Roberts had eased into middle age as a professor of religion and philosophy at Cooper College in Upstate South Carolina. Although his relationship with his wife Debbie is lackluster, he is totally committed to his family. The marriage, however, is doomed along with the daily joys of parenting their precocious Hannah. Without any premonition, Barsh is shaken to the foundation when Debbie asks for a separation with plans to take Hannah to Louisville, Kentucky. As he struggles to prepare their daughter for the separation and to discover a new direction for his own life, he finds himself drawn inextricably into the life of Angela Kundera, the new English professor from New York.


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REVIEW-SOUTH WIND RISING

 

 

David Housel, retired (2006) Athletic Director at Auburn University, posted this review on Amazon today:

 

 

If "South Wind Rising" is any indication, we are in for many more great books by a new name to the literary scene, Frederick W. Bassett.

For a first time effort, this is exceptional--for a writer of any degree of experience, this book would be exceptional. For it to come from a first-time author it is especially remarkable and holds out the hope/promise of many more to come. Let's hope he is as prolific as he writes.

"South Wind Rising" is a coming of age story in a more simple time, but the trials, tribulation, angst, hope and wonder of that terrible yet wonderful time of change is effectively captured in this book...as much here as in any book you will read for a long time.

Loving told, beautifully written. These characters will stay with you a long time---and in each of them, you will find a bit of yourself.

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Just released!

South Wind Rising

Authored by Frederick W. Bassett

"South Wind Rising" is a deep, rich portrait of a boy coming of age in a South graced with the power of nature but troubled by lurking dangers. Bassett's forthright narrative is direct and compelling, and Barsh Roberts's sexual education is by turns funny, sweet, moving, and filled with surprises.
- Valerie Sayers, novelist and Professor of English, Notre Dame University

About the author:
A native of Roanoke, Alabama, Fred Bassett is an
award-winning poet who holds four academic degrees. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Fred lives with his wife Peg in Greenwood, South Carolina, near their grandchildren.