Down to a Sunless Sea

Mathias B. Freese

Release Date: November 13, 2013

eBook Price: $7.99

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DESCRIPTION

Down to a Sunless Sea plunges the reader into uncomfortable situations and into the minds of troubled characters. Each selection is a different reading experience – poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wryly humorous, and even macabre. An award-winning essayist and historical novelist, Mathias B. Freese brings the weight of his twenty-five years as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist into play as he demonstrates a vivid understanding of – and compassion toward – the deviant and damaged.

In Down to a Sunless Sea the desire to be understood – to be felt – is given ardent, strong, and imaginative voice. Sometimes the world has not been receptive, but Freese knows himself, and by knowing himself he knows us pretty well, too. The inability or refusal to feel for others is the ultimate isolation. To deny the humanity of a fellow human being is to deny one’s own humanity. It is a charade that manifests itself in cruelty again and again in order to justify its own being. Evil exists in the world because it is allowed. To stand against it often means standing alone.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cited in The Best American Short Stories of 1975, under “Distinctive Short Stories of 1974” for “Herbie,” later published in Down to a Sunless Sea.

Awardee in the John Warkentin Essay Contest. “He Tells Me,” Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, 1987.

First-place for personal essay/memoir in 2005 for “To Ms. Foley, with Gratitude,” the Society of Southwestern Authors, later published in This Möbius Strip of Ifs.

Winner of the Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award for the Holocaust novel, The i Tetralogy.

Down to a Sunless Sea, a collection of short fiction, winner of the Indie Excellence Finalist Book Award and Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award.

This Möbius Strip of Ifs 2012 Winner of the Indie Excellence Book Awards and Finalist in the Global ebook Awards.

In 2012 I Truly Lament – Working Through the Holocaust (manuscript) was one of three finalists for the Leapfrog Contest from over 400 manuscripts submitted.