Blaine Coleman

Finding Roland Mccray: the Adventure of Roland Mccray Blaine Coleman

Publisher Marketing: ""This author opens his hands to reveal highly polished pearls."" "The 'Roland McCray' stories are reminiscent of Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye', Bradbury's 'Dandelion Wine' and Faulkner's short stories!" The way they are woven you feel what Roland feels; not all lightness and brightness, but like real life in all of its shaded details. A theme of remembrance and a bit of melancholy runs throughout the book, only serving to make it seem more real. This book includes the first two volumes in the "The Adventures of Roland McCray" series with minor revisions and corrections but no additional material added. This saga of Roland McCray's adventures begins in the 1960's and recalls a simpler time to be a kid, when children played outdoors for hours instead of spending hours on their smart phones, tablets and video games, and follows Roland through those angst-ridden teenage years. No longer a child but not yet an adult, Roland learns the pain of loss and feels the joyful rush of first love. He comes to understand the need of forgiveness and acceptance in an often confusing world. As a teen, Roland is enticed by more temptations than ever, but he believes in the quiet morality of his grandfather's belief, that faith isn't displayed to the world but is a quiet certainty that all things work for the good of those who seek good. Roland holds fast to that faith to overcome the beliefs imposed on him by the church his entire life and as a guide to his own Path to God. Each chapter is a complete story, but taken together, Roland McCray's experiences form a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This book will quickly pull you into Roland's world and the struggles of being a teenager, a nostalgic tale of a young man growing up in the south and losing his religion to find God, but is ultimately a satisfying and truly inspiring story that will leave you with a new view of the beauty that is life! "There's something soothing about reading one of Roland's stories, like a reverie of my own childhood, seamlessly allowing us to stand on the fringe and enjoy watching Roland grow." "These stories are woven in such a way that you feel what Roland feels- not all lightness and brightness, but more like real life remembered in all of its shaded details." Contributor Bio:  Coleman, Blaine Blaine Coleman grew up in an extended family in southeastern Virginia, and studied religion and creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. He's worked in jobs as disparate as taxi-cab driver (a difficult and stressful job that he wouldn't recommend to anyone), restaurant busboy/dishwasher to retail chain manager to successful business owner and, having worked closely with people of every socio-economic bracket, he's learned that everyone has something of value to teach, and he tries to put those varied experiences to good use in his writing. He now lives in a rural area near Richmond, Va. where his two rescue dogs have room to run and he spends his free time gardening, reading and writing.