Drive: A Novel

by Don Tassone

Overview

Nick Reynolds is a highly successful food company executive.  He’s also a bully, feared by his employees and estranged from his wife and children.  After his latest blow-up at work, Nick’s boss orders him to take the summer off and sort himself out.  Angry and despondent, Nick sets off, alone, from his home in Chicago for Bar Harbor, Maine.  

This is the story of what Nick experiences, learns and chooses along the way.  It is a colorful and moving portrait of a man who must rediscover who he is and decide whether he can go on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936135448
Publisher:	Golden Antelope Press
Publication date:	10/13/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	537
File size:	779 KB

About the Author

After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone has returned to his creative writing roots. He is the author of two novels and seven short story collections. Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. They have four children.

Editorial Reviews

One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation from the platitudes and dogmas that have enslaved them. You're dealing with egos and, with egos, the answer to everything is ‘more me.’ Sometimes the situation calls for less you. After years of corporate drudgery, Drive’s Nick Reynolds has finally reached the breaking point in a profit-and-loss life and goes on the lam from his own existence. Tassone’s adventures in the realm of big business give him the credentials to examine a man pushed over the edge by everyday stresses. He also has the sly voice to make readers wonder how it will all end for Nick in the same manner we wonder the same thing about ourselves.

— Eric Dezenhall, author of Glass Jaw

When I first read Don Tassone's collection of stories, Get Back, I enjoyed them so much that I was eager to read his novel. Drive did not disappoint. Tassone has the rare ability to make the reader actually enjoy spending time with a central character who at first seems so arrogant and abrasive. That's impressive.

-- Joanna Marshall, Retired Professor of English Literature, University of Puerto Rico

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