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Errol Lincoln Uys a writer's website |
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Errol Lincoln Uys a writer's website |
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BRAZIL | RIDING THE RAILS | BOXCAR KIDS | MICHENER'S SECRET COVENANT | BRAZIL - MAKING OF A NOVEL | BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | COMMENTOPIA |
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"A masterpiece! Brazil has the feel of an enchanted virgin forest, a totally new and original world for the reader-explorer to discover." "Pulsing with vigor, this is a vast novel to tell the story of a vast country. Uys recreates history almost entirely "at ground level," through the eyes and actions of an awesome cast of characters." — Publishers Weekly "Uys has accomplished what no Brazilian author from José de Alencar to Jorge Amado was able to do. He is the first outsider with the total honesty and sympathy to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay are unsurpassed in our literature and evoke the great passages of War and Peace." — Wilson Martins, Jornal do Brasil
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[ALSO AVAILABLE ON KINDLE]
LITERARY ARCHIVE
BRAZIL
THE MAKING OF A NOVEL
I searched for the story of Brazil for five years, a literary pathfinder in quest of the epic of the Brazilian people. I share my mighty journey of twenty thousand kilometers across the length and breadth of Brazil. A quest driven by a passion for writing and storytelling. I explore the exhaustive processes that go into the writing of a novel with a first draft of three-quarters of million words penned in the old-fashioned way, by hand.
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Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression "As gripping, as it is well-researched, Uys so thoroughly recreates the wretched conditions the boxcar boys and girls endured that the reader can all but hear the cadence of the trains on the tracks and the lonesome wail at every whistle stop." — Boston Globe "Riding the Rails sets out to tell about a few of the 250,000 teenagers who hopped freights and lived the hobo life in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash ... paints a brisk, colorful, fast-paced portrait of lean times and high hopes." — Tulsa World [AVAILABLE IN PRINT and KINDLE]
Read a selection of letters from men and women who rode the rails during the 1930s.
RIDING THE RAILS a film by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell
Peabody Award "Best Documentary" Directors Guild of America Los Angeles Film Critics 19 national/international awards
THE GOOD SOLDIER A DOCUMENTARY BY Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys
Directed by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (DGA, Los Angeles Film Critics, and Peabody Award winners for Riding the Rails)
BOSTON OUTLINEBook Two: The Shop at the Seven Steps FAMILY TREES |
WORKING WITH JAMES A. MICHENER
LITERARY ARCHIVE James Michener's Secret Covenant
A unique look at what went into the making of The Covenant, providing an intimate view of a controversial collaboration that produced Michener's South African epic.
"Every excerpt, every page you have written for my book these past weeks shows that you are a writer with a superb use of the English language, a remarkable vocabulary and a very special turn of phrase...You unquestionably have the talent to write almost anything you direct your attention to." -- Michener to Uys
A Novel of America is an experimental online writing project launched in November 2008.
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