Novel Excerpts
Free Excerpts From Lee Vidor Novels
All Lee Vidor novels are now available for kindle on Amazon.com. You can download free excerpts for your Kindle there.
EXCERPTS TO READ ON THIS WEB SITE:
Complete novels currently available on this site for purchase and download:
And We Will Be Formless And Sacred As The Ocean Read Excerpt
Love Is A Simple Thing, The Sound Of A Cello Singing. Read Excerpt
Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds WIthout Song. Read Excerpt
The Auschwitz Chapter from Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds WIthout Song. Read
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Novels Excerpted But Not Yet Available For Purchase:
From 20th Century Bohemians and Angels novel cycle:
We Will Soar Into The Air As If Lured By The Sun. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of New York City in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Love Flees From Us Like A Frightened Bird. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of Greenwich Village, New York, in 1912-17.
Love Comes Down Like Death On Fierce Wings Swooping. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of Hollywood in the Golden Age of the 1930s.
The Published Novels of Lee Vidor
And We Will Be Formless And Sacred As The Ocean
Read an Excerpt: And We Will Be Formless And Sacred As The Ocean
And We Will Be Formless And Sacred As The Ocean
This novel is a love story taking place in Hawaii, amongst American high society in 1936.
The book is not part of the 20th Century Bohemians and Angels novel cycle. Although it may be included in a chronological reading of the socio-political history of the 20th Century.
In 1936 a world famous American author arrives in Hawaii from bohemian Paris, fleeing totalitarianism and war. He claims that he is there to write and search the high jungle for a forgotten black orchid, mentioned by Captain James Cook in the marginalia of his ship log of 1779.
After the author meets a married Dutch woman who is mistress of a sugar cane plantation, and the flamboyant lesbian who adores her from a distance, he is accepted into the colonialist island community.
Quickly his bohemianism brings him into conflict with the morally decadent but discreet mores of the imperialistic community.
The story examines love and the loss of it.
Read an Excerpt: And We Will Be Formless And Sacred As The Ocean
Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
Read an Excerpt: Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
This novel is a love story taking place among civilians in Europe under the Nazi Occupation in the years 1941-44.
The story explores the daily reality of WW2 Europe under Occupation. Collaboration and resistance both. The lives and moral dilemmas facing people, and what their decisions cost them.
It also documents the routine daily lives and work of Resistance civilians and describes the historical course of the civilian war, through several countries over several years.
The story examines the reality of oppression and resistance.
Whether love can bring us redemption.
Whether what we do matters to us or to the world.
Whether we can ever forget what we've done and been.
Read an Excerpt: Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
The Auschwitz Chapter
Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song includes a short but precise and definitive historical record of the events which took place in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
The Auschwitz Chapter is an extremely accurate fifteen page dramatized account of Auschwitz processes and systems, which is being offered here for free unedited publication in school, college or university text books anywhere in the world.
Read the Auschwitz Chapter: The Auschwitz Chapter
Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
In 1941 a woman schoolteacher in a small port city in Occupied France is caught between compliance and moral action. Numbed by the savagery of the life around her, she is fearful and unable to decide if compliance is collaboration. She cannot find a moral center on which found a life.
One day while out cycling, she comes upon the brutal execution of a collaborator which shocks her from her numbness. But the shock is not the awakening of life in her.
Read an Excerpt: Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song
Love Is A Simple Thing, The Sound Of A Cello Singing
Love Is A Simple Thing,The Sound Of A Cello Singing
Read an Excerpt: Love Is A Simple Thing, The Sound Of A Cello Singing
Love Is A Simple Thing,The Sound Of A Cello Singing
This novel concerns the lives of the exiled artists and bohemians of Paris in the 1920s.
It is the first published novel of the 20th Century Bohemians and Angels novel cycle.
In the early 1920s a young American couple escape to Paris to fulfill their dreams of a bohemian life of art and liberation. There in the Montparnasse community of artists and exiles Gene believes he can finally write a great novel. Paris is undergoing a great golden age of art and expression, and both of them long to be a part of it.
Among the artists of Paris they find the world to which they have longed to belong. But it is a world which transforms people from what they have desired to become, into what they will always be.
What is expressed cannot be unexpressed, and encounters with the exotic kill the pleasures of the everyday. Paris is in a mad fever of inspiration, an erotic fever. Here life and art are not separated, and what is inside a person will reveal itself.
The story examines the nature of love and expression and the things which make us truly come alive.
Read an Excerpt: Love Is A Simple Thing,The Sound Of A Cello Singing
20th Century Bohemians and Angels
20th Century Bohemians and Angels is a cycle of novels by Lee Vidor.
The cycle is an extended work of fiction which explores the Modernist Renaissance which took place throughout the 20th Century, and which made our contemporary world.
The fictional themes of the cycle are love, sex, death, art.
Each book is a work of fiction, each book is entirely independent but thematically related. You can begin reading the cycle with any book, all of the novels are complete in themselves.
The novel cycle attempts to create an integrated picture of the real lives of the revolutionary modernists and the bohemian milieus in which they lived and created all through the 20th Century.
It also traces the socio-political developments of the evolving century, particularly as related to sexuality, self expression and women's liberation. Historically the 20th Century will come to be seen as The Century of Women.
The cycle dramatizes the 20th Century as a Renaissance which has been historically far more important to the development of mankind than the Renaissance of c.15th Century.
Read more about Lee Vidor's Theory of the 20th Century Modernist Renaissance: Modernist Renaissance
Each book in the cycle is an independent story dealing with a particular bohemian milieu. Artists both historically real and fictional are depicted together in their struggle to survive and create, to love and to live, to revolutionize the world and survive their obsessive passions. The books are historically accurate and depict the daily reality of bohemian lives.
Ultimately there will be 12 novels in the cycle.
The first 6 will be published in 2011-12. A following 3 novels will be published in 2013.
20th Century Bohemians and Angels Cycle
(a partial title list)
Love Is A Simple Thing, The Sound Of A Cello Singing
We Will Soar Into The Air As If Lured By The Sun
Love Flees From Us Like A Frightened Bird
Even The Clouds Are Chained To The Sky
Love Comes Down Like Death On Fierce Wings Swooping
Everything Leaves A Trace. Like Wounds. Like Scars. Like Kisses On Skin
Love Dies Like An Angel Shot In Flight
READ EXCERPTS From 20th Century Bohemians and Angels novel cycle:
Love Is A Simple Thing,The Sound Of A Cello Singing. Read Excerpt
This book is about the lives of the exiled artists and bohemians of Paris in the 1920s.
It is now published and available for purchase on this website.
We Will Soar Into The Air As If Lured By The Sun. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of New York City in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Love Flees From Us Like A Frightened Bird. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of Hollywood in the Golden Age of the 1930s.
Love Comes Down Like Death On Fierce Wings Swooping. Read Excerpt
This book is about the artists and bohemians of Greenwich Village, New York, in 1912-17.
