GREG FIELDS

Author

The Bright Freight of Memory

PEN/Faulkner Literary Award - Nominee

National Book Award - Nominee

American Writing Awards - Winner Fiction

Early praise for The Bright Freight of Memory:

Vivid, haunting, redemptive. With emotional depth, The Bright Freight of Memory by Greg Fields traces the legacies of hardship that shape our identities and shows how past suffering can either shackle or strengthen. (more)

- The Chrysalis BREW Project

“With this novel Greg Fields has once again firmly established himself in the ranks of America’s finest fiction writers.”
– Ray Carson Russell, Author, Philurius College Blues

“A compelling read that resonates with tragic realism and literary excellence.”
- Glenn R. Miller, Author, Doorman Wanted

“This is a searing ode to the flawed….Fields’ elegant prose shows us there is beauty and nobility to be found in unlikely places.”
- Alfredo Botello, Author, 180 Days

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Fiction

Matthew Cooney and Donal Mannion shared their time as boys in a rundown neighborhood, without fathers, without comfort, without a sense of tomorrow, then went their separate ways, one to chase the trappings of maturity, the other to the streets. Their days shrouded in boredom, their nights filled with the thrill of the chase, each sought his place and his purpose.

Within their struggles are the challenges of escape, of outrunning the roll of the dice that placed them where they are, and, in the end, of defining what it means to be alive, to constantly strive for the things that are just out of reach.

Coursing through several decades, the novel spans the farmlands of Ireland, the Irish Civil War, the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and the interior landscapes against which we all seek to craft identity and meaning. With well drawn, complex characters, a strong narrative arc, and a poetic sense of place, Through the Waters and the Wild addresses the timeless questions, “Where shall I go now? What shall I do?”

2022 Winner of Literary Fiction

Independent Press Award
New York City Book Award
Marl-Nobel Award
Literary Titan Gold Award

Arc of the Comet, a lyrical, evocative examination of promise, potential and loss, First loves, lost loves, friendships crafted in the crucibles of shared space and shared pressures defined their journey. In the process, they come to separate conclusions that place them once again in disparate places, with disparate expectations of what comes next.

Nominated for 2018 Kindle Book of the Year in Literary Fiction and the Cabell First Novelist Award