A Man with No Alibi
After claiming to be a writer for many years, Duncan Burch has finally published his first novel, A Man with No Alibi. The book recounts the story of a young man who sets out on a journey that ultimately leads to self discovery and spiritual awakening. It is written with disarming candor and a comic wit that will engage and entertain the reader from beginning to end. According to the author, “If you only read one book all year, then without question, this will be the best book you read all year.”
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About the Novel
A Man with No Alibi recounts the story of a young man who embarks on an epic quest. In an age of unprecedented technological advancements, social upheaval, and moral turmoil, he sets out in search of those illusive eternal truths which transcend all times and spaces. From the outset, his perilous journey is beset with unexpected obstacles and difficult challenges, propelling him on a series of elaborate detours and colorful adventures. Along the way he is often distracted by various phenomena of human experience, by love and lust, wealth and poverty, politics and power, fame and failure. But through it all, over the course of many years, he stubbornly persists in his efforts to fulfill his mission and complete his quest.
The story is set in the contemporary, pre-apocalyptic America of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and though it is in one sense an acerbic and humorous commentary on modern society, it is also an intensely personal story of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Despite the series of hardships and setbacks strewn along his path, the man refuses to be dissuaded, and over time, he slowly accumulates the hard-earned wisdom that enables him to begin to understand the purpose and meaning of human life.
The story is told with a disarming candor and a penetrating wit, rendering it easily accessible and continuously engaging. It is both entertaining and informative, and it is at times so funny that even the most humorless readers might find themselves laughing out loud. Read an excerpt from the novel by clicking on the link below.
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About the author
Duncan Burch was born in Houston, Texas, where he grew up in his family’s ditch-adjacent home in the suburban neighborhood of Briar Meadow. In his youth he attended a fancy-pants college preparatory school known as The Kinkaid School, from which he ultimately graduated despite his ongoing struggles with both apathy and laziness. He later received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Rollins College, a well-regarded liberal arts party school located in Winter Park, Florida, but he has always suspected that the degree was only awarded to him due to some type of processing error.
After drifting aimlessly around the country and working at various jobs for many years, he eventually settled in Austin, Texas, where he somehow stumbled into a mildly lucrative career as a technical writer. For at least 30 years, he has been telling people that he was writing a book, and now, at long last, in order to prove that he wasn’t lying the whole time, he has finally completed his first novel. He currently resides in Granite Shoals, a small town in the Texas Hill Country on the shore of Lake LBJ, and when he’s not writing, he spends most of his free time working on his golf game and feeding his pet deer.
