Mr. F Winston Pate
author@fwinstonpate.com
http://www.fwinstonpate.com
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About My Writing
Serenity explores the influences of sexual
orientation, emotional honesty and personal
integrity in developing loving relationships with
other human beings─ issues which concern
everybody, knowingly or otherwise, as they
struggle to find sustaining love in the course of
their voyages through what can often be a poorly
signposted life. The theme of this book is
therefore universal and, for this reason alone,
it will appeal to a wide range of readers of all
ages and backgrounds.
The principal characters all come from very
different walks of life and by chance are first
brought together as a result of their common
problems with alcohol and their membership in
Alcoholics Anonymous as a consequence. This
novel charts the courses of their developing
relationships with each other, both within and
outside the context of AA, relationships which
can lead to some highly dramatic encounters as
well as some very unpredictable and unexpected
outcomes.
Although this story as it progresses reveals
much about the nature and psychology of
alcoholism, as well as how the AA Fellowship
deals with it, readers, whatever their
backgrounds, will quickly find many traits of the
characters they can strongly identify with. It
is not so much a story about alcoholism as about
the pursuit of human happiness in general and how
different people go about trying to find it—with
very different starting positions, different
approaches and with varying degrees of
success.
Winston Pate also tells this essentially serious
but in places very profound story in a highly
entertaining and often humorous way which
sustains the reader’s keen interest and level of
enjoyment right through to the end. As a
consequence, it is both a very absorbing as well
as a very enlightening read which contains
something for everyone. It will appeal in
particular to readers who have an interest in
human emotional and psychological evolution as a
consequence of attempts at dealing with life’s
adversities.
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| About Me
Winston Pate was born in Memphis, Tennessee into a Southern American family of builders and
grew up in a great variety of places in America as his family travelled extensively because of
his father’s work.
He was educated at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he took a BA in
Greek classics and English literature, and, after coming to England at the age of twenty-four,
at Selwyn College Cambridge where took an additional BA and subsequently an MA in theology. He
has lived in England continuously since then and became a British National in 1993.
Before taking up writing he worked as a furniture remover, hospital orderly, labourer,
stockbroker’s clerk, banker and IT consultant. He is also an active biker and bodybuilder and
owns and operates Taunton Bodybuilders, a small bodybuilding gym in Taunton, his Somerset home
town in the UK.
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Serenity
Genre: Fiction - General
Status: Available for Purchase
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