NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Lisa Stock invites readers on an allegorical journey through a mythical land in her new poetic novel, The Sun (now available through AuthorHouse). Mixing fairy tale with myth, Stock creates a haunting story that comments on love and letting go.
Basing her ideas on the Celtic myth of the wolf that swallows the sun to bring on the night, Stock presents an original novel that lends a nod to Little Red Riding Hood. The novel takes place in a fictitious harbor city divided into the Near and Far Quarters by an ancient waterway. The region is bordered on one side by a dense, mysterious forest and the other by desert sands known as The Forbidden Lands.
The Sun follows the journey of an unnamed woman who sets out for the Far Quarter to deliver bread to an injured neighbor's mother and to mail a postcard to her estranged lover. While she likes things to present themselves in a straightforward manner, she also struggles with decisions. As she journeys, the unbearable heat of the sun takes its toll. She boards a ferry where she encounters a mysterious man who looks identical to her lover. Known to her as the Wolf, he becomes her guide on this unexpected journey. She trusts he will take her straight home, but the blazing sun and an oncoming windstorm change everything she ever believed about love.
Offering an abundance of metaphors and symbolism for the literary mind to devour, The Sun reveals the importance of relinquishing the pain of past love and opening one's life to the new.
An actress and writer based in New York, Stock uses her varied backgrounds in theater, film, museums and anthropology to construct her art. A graduate of Hunter College Film School, she won awards for her short story, "The Death of Marlowe," and for excellence in the study of cinema. She began her career as a member and literary manager of the Turnip Theater Company and also spent eight years working at the American Museum of Natural History. In 2001, she and a friend formed a production company, Surrendering Pictures. She is currently co-editor of an upcoming literary journal written by American and Iraqi women. The Sun is her first novel. For more information, please visit Stock's Web site at www.InByTheEye.com.
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