A Kind of Life: Novelle from the River Delta

A few times a century there appear original authors in the literary ferment of the age. Most rare and interesting are those writers who silently, unsuspectingly, reach out through the haze of published names to emerge with a startlingly unique voice. A voice following no set trends, patterns or style to, in some unusual way, transcend the readers expectations. Novella From the River Delta: Dorothy Russell’s first collection of short stories, may well prove to be just such an appearance. Though not autobiographical, the Novella embrace, nevertheless, the biographical traces of each of Russell’s character’s; their existential dilemmas, aspirations, failures and, most of all, their search for unity in fragmented love and happiness in a world of lost hopes and missed chances. Woman and Man in a labyrinth of emotional agendas, ego and egotism, confronted with sentiment, love and the creative longing to comprehend one another in a world in which they feel helpless and lost.