Villanova MA Student Publishes Novel
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Villanova MA student Adam Riekstins has published a novel with his publishing company, Parsley Wake Publishing. The book, Robin and the Great White Heron , is available in Kindle and paperback versions, both online and in select stores. Robin and the Great White Heron will also soon be released to Barnes and Noble and other major book retailers. Robin and the Great White Heron is a philosophical adventure that explores the meaning in our lives against the excesses of society, religious fanaticism, comical grief and bad art. When Robin’s friend dies, she is faced by a wave of existential reckoning and must come to terms with not only her own indifference to life but with the world around her that has become so strange and alienating. The novella takes influence from postmodern and philosophical authors such as Albert Camus, Nathanael West, Anthony Burgess and Vladimir Nabokov. The narrative aims to diagnose the modern problems of asserting singular identity in a sea of (no...