New Fiction by Mass-Murder Witness Explores Reality of Violence, Hunger of Evil; Book by Charisse Goodman, Released by Dog Ear Publishing
Based on the author’s personal experience, The Starved Senses offers a new answer to old questions: Why do people commit heinous acts of violence, and how do they arrive at the mental state necessary to bully, torment and murder those who have done them no harm? John Affame is one example. He’s an angry man, and as his world crumbles around him he becomes out of touch, which makes him dangerous. When he walks into a law firm and starts shooting, he makes worldwide headlines.
Walnut Creek, CA, October 20, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Based on the author’s personal experience, The Starved Senses, published by Dog Ear Publishing, offers a new answer to old questions: Why do people commit heinous acts of violence, and how do they arrive at the mental state necessary to bully, torment and even murder those who have done them no harm? The shocking truth is that evil is only a mystery because most people want it that way.
John Affame is one example of that evil. He’s an angry man – he’s alone, his business is failing, and he blames lawyers for cheating him of what’s rightfully his – but more than that, he’s a man starving for any kind of human connection; and as his world crumbles around him, he becomes both figuratively and literally out of touch, and that makes him dangerous. When he walks into a prominent San Francisco law firm and starts shooting, he makes worldwide headlines and becomes another convenient mystery. Rachel, an assistant at the law firm, survives the massacre, but struggles through guilt and trauma to find her way back to a life that makes sense. And Emmett, a bullied teenage boy in a nearby Bay Area town, watches news of the shootings on television and becomes obsessed with the notion of revenge.
Affame’s rampage is drawn from actual events. On July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri walked into the San Francisco offices of Pettit & Martin armed with two TEC-9 assault weapons and hundreds of rounds of Black Talon ammunition, and opened fire; in a matter of minutes, he murdered eight people, wounded six more, and then killed himself in an emergency stairwell as police and SWAT teams closed in. The media named it “The 101 California Street Massacre,” and it remains the worst mass shooting in the city’s history. Goodman, a Pettit & Martin employee, was caught in the line of Ferri’s fire but was lucky enough to escape unharmed; she spent the next two years working at the scene of the crime. Haunted by the tragedy, she was driven to tell a story about the reality of violence that strips away the expedient mystique of evil, revealing not only its banality but also its implacable and hopeless hunger. She has crafted a chilling portrait, not only of the disconnected mind of a killer, but also the everyday feeding frenzy of a society where mass murders are rapidly becoming commonplace and success is still defined by the ability to compete, acquire, and consume. Readers of The Starved Senses will take away an unforgettable lesson: that there is no such thing as cruelty without consequences. They will never ask “why?” again.
Charisse Goodman is a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and author of the 1995 nonfiction book The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice In America.
For more information, visit www.thestarvedsenses.com
The Starved Senses
Charisse Goodman
Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-160844-586-8 342 pages $17.95 US
Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.
About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at www.dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.
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John Affame is one example of that evil. He’s an angry man – he’s alone, his business is failing, and he blames lawyers for cheating him of what’s rightfully his – but more than that, he’s a man starving for any kind of human connection; and as his world crumbles around him, he becomes both figuratively and literally out of touch, and that makes him dangerous. When he walks into a prominent San Francisco law firm and starts shooting, he makes worldwide headlines and becomes another convenient mystery. Rachel, an assistant at the law firm, survives the massacre, but struggles through guilt and trauma to find her way back to a life that makes sense. And Emmett, a bullied teenage boy in a nearby Bay Area town, watches news of the shootings on television and becomes obsessed with the notion of revenge.
Affame’s rampage is drawn from actual events. On July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri walked into the San Francisco offices of Pettit & Martin armed with two TEC-9 assault weapons and hundreds of rounds of Black Talon ammunition, and opened fire; in a matter of minutes, he murdered eight people, wounded six more, and then killed himself in an emergency stairwell as police and SWAT teams closed in. The media named it “The 101 California Street Massacre,” and it remains the worst mass shooting in the city’s history. Goodman, a Pettit & Martin employee, was caught in the line of Ferri’s fire but was lucky enough to escape unharmed; she spent the next two years working at the scene of the crime. Haunted by the tragedy, she was driven to tell a story about the reality of violence that strips away the expedient mystique of evil, revealing not only its banality but also its implacable and hopeless hunger. She has crafted a chilling portrait, not only of the disconnected mind of a killer, but also the everyday feeding frenzy of a society where mass murders are rapidly becoming commonplace and success is still defined by the ability to compete, acquire, and consume. Readers of The Starved Senses will take away an unforgettable lesson: that there is no such thing as cruelty without consequences. They will never ask “why?” again.
Charisse Goodman is a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and author of the 1995 nonfiction book The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice In America.
For more information, visit www.thestarvedsenses.com
The Starved Senses
Charisse Goodman
Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-160844-586-8 342 pages $17.95 US
Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.
About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at www.dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.
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