Fiction. Tim Shell's first novel, THE DRUMS OF AFRICA, is a gripping and timely tale of two young Americans, Val and Glen, arriving in Africa as Peace Corps volunteers in the 1970s, filled with altruism, naivete and a thirst for adventure. As the line between adventure and catastrophe narrows, Schell masterfully creates a mosaic of cultural perspectives and ethical tensions between faith and its lack, politics and revolutionary coups, lust and love set against an exotic backdrop rife with sorcerers, priests, corrupt politicians, poachers, coffee farmers, Peace Corps workers and prostitutes, a place leading each character inward to unexpected self-revelation and self-sacrifice. A richly panoplied novel, alive with sensuous detail and compelling narrative, THE DRUMS OF AFRICA is both an adventure tale and a philosophical rumination on the power of crisis and contradiction to test and ultimately transform ideals, laws, ancient instincts, faith and the challenges presented by human love met by human courage.
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Tim Schell has published short stories and essays in magazines and literary journals and he co-founded and edited the Clackamas Literary Review at Clackamas Community College where he taught for seven years before moving to Albuquerque where he taught creative writing at the University of New Mexico. Tim is the co-author of Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (Prentice Hall, 2006) and the co-editor of A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall, 2001). His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Award, and in 1994 he was the winner of the Martindale Award for Long Fiction. He was the winner of the 2004 Mammoth Book Award for Prose for his novel THE DRUMS OF AFRICA, and a section of his novel Road to the Sea appears in the Fall 2006 issue of Ploughshares. Currently, Tim is the Chair of the Writing, Literature and Foreign Language Department at Columbia Gorge Community College, and he also chairs the board of directors of the non-profit Mountain Writers Series.
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