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Middle Island, NY, United States, 2008/11/05 - Heralded an exhilarating new talent, debut novelist Hal Schweig, entertains while bravely tackling age-old questions about God’s influence on mortal lives and immortality.
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Winner of major awards at the New York and Hollywood Book Festivals, The Strange Odyssey of Peter Sampson, by debut novelist Hal Schweig, has been published as a trade paperback.
Dr. Andrew Linick, president of New World Press, publisher of Strange Odyssey, said the book garnered a recent accolade from NewBookReviews.org, an online book review site, which proclaimed, “Hal Schweig is an exhilarating new talent. His bold leap into controversial subjects shows a bravery and confidence usually reserved for best selling authors, but his skill and talent make it look and feel he belongs in that group. Bravo! An extraordinary reading experience!”
Strange Odyssey tells the story of two anguished souls—Peter Sampson, a failed alcoholic professor, who has lost his faith, and Brett Parker, a hauntingly beautiful and mysteriously angelic fashion model, by her own admission, “sexually dead inside”—who meet and embark on an otherworldly odyssey that changes their lives and dramatically alters humanity’s understanding of life after death and the immortality of the soul.
Peter Sampson is a sweeping epic encompassing a romantic and intimate story that chronicles Sampson’s life and loves and his ultimate triumph over despair and hopelessness; a victory of his newfound spirituality over the specter of death that has haunted three generations of his family.
The novel won the top award in the General Fiction category at the New York Book Festival and was accorded the top e-book (prior to its recent publication as a trade paperback) at the Hollywood Book Festival. It can be purchased at halschweig.com or amazon.com and is expected to be in stores before the end of the year.
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