Sing, Ronnie Blue

Fiction. Gary D. Wilson's long-awaited debut novel--set in Bartlett's Junction, Kansas, "An All-American City" and proud sponsor of the state's largest 4th of July fireworks display--details the lives of its two main characters, Ronnie Blue, son of a local junk yard owner, and John Klein, son of the president of the town's only bank, from their high school friendship and subsequent drifting apart to their fateful re-engagement five years later during an Independence Day celebration in their hometown that leaves one of the men murdered and the other eventually hounded to death. An intensely moving story, Wilson's novel takes a long and honest look at the economic and class divisions in our society that produce people such as Ronnie Blue, perhaps the most sympathetic character to appear in fiction since Forrest Gump. Wilson's depth of character, coupled with a sophisticated style and poetic wordplay that calls to mind THE GREAT GATSBY, makes SING, RONNIE BLUE a book that should appeal to a broad and appreciative audience. "With this debut, reeaders reading him for the first time will find out what I've known for 20 years, that Wilson is one of the best fiction writers around"--Stephen Dixon.