Matthew Geyer
Matthew Geyer has been a motion picture propmaker, a corporate lawyer, and a commercial arbitrator and mediator. He has degrees in Philosophy and Law, and more brothers and sisters than most people.
In his new novel, Atlantic View, a long-time newspaper reporter, Patrick Munchen, loses his job, his wife and his way, only to discover an improbable new path with the support of his teenage daughter, Megan. Set against the backdrop of the Obama election, and Patrick’s search for the woman who wrote his father a stash of letters during the Second World War, the end of one kind of life becomes the beginning of another.
In his first novel, Strays, Barbara Pendleton leaves her philandering husband Chase while he’s playing golf at the Ridgefield Country Club with their teenage son. She takes an apartment near Thad’s school on the Upper East Side, and a job she doesn’t need in a Chelsea art gallery. Chase keeps the house Barbara never wanted, and has Thad on the weekends. The rearrangement of this triangle unfolds over the course of a year in which all of them grow closer and their paths forward become clear.
Atlantic View and Strays are available through your local independent bookseller, and the usual online suspects.
In his new novel, Atlantic View, a long-time newspaper reporter, Patrick Munchen, loses his job, his wife and his way, only to discover an improbable new path with the support of his teenage daughter, Megan. Set against the backdrop of the Obama election, and Patrick’s search for the woman who wrote his father a stash of letters during the Second World War, the end of one kind of life becomes the beginning of another.
In his first novel, Strays, Barbara Pendleton leaves her philandering husband Chase while he’s playing golf at the Ridgefield Country Club with their teenage son. She takes an apartment near Thad’s school on the Upper East Side, and a job she doesn’t need in a Chelsea art gallery. Chase keeps the house Barbara never wanted, and has Thad on the weekends. The rearrangement of this triangle unfolds over the course of a year in which all of them grow closer and their paths forward become clear.
Atlantic View and Strays are available through your local independent bookseller, and the usual online suspects.
On Writing and Reading
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something, when you need to be very intelligent indeed. The rest of the time, you need almost an empty mind, where you can let any image in, follow it along, and allow an emotional charge, almost the way actors and singers can work. The more instinct you have as a novelist, and the less intelligence, the better.” - Colm Tóibín
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