The Weight - W Thomas McQueeney

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Biographie:
Author W. Thomas McQueeney continues to widen his impact upon the literary world. The fourth of nine children, McQueeney graduated with honors from The Citadel and distinguished his career by his volunteerism within the Charleston community. He has chaired or served on more than two dozen state and local boards to include Patriots Point Development Authority, The Citadel Board of Visitors, The State of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame, MUSC Children's Hospital, and the National Medal of Honor Center for Leadership. The author was accorded The Order of the Palmetto - the highest award presented by the governor of South Carolina. He has written nineteen books in genres to include history, humor, fiction, and biography....

Sommaire:

THE WEIGHT is a fictional story with a purpose.

A frugal older man despises state and national lotteries because he believes they rob the poor. He buys his first ticket out of compassion for a minority cashier working on Thanksgiving. He does not tell his wife or check the results in the newspaper. His numbers match and he wins $1.61 billion. His dilemma intensifies as others find out. His wife's deadly cancer returns. He becomes the target of a kid-nap crime. One of his sons has a gambling addiction. He must navigate a new life that is fraught with difficult decisions. He is predisposed to not turn in the winning ticket.

The characters are depicted as those we would know by type, tendency, and temperament. The exercise of introducing unusual circumstances to usual routines is meant to extol the process of time-sensitive evaluation. His dying wife teaches him to meet moments bravely. Difficult choices deliver the characters to a nexus of conflict. One must move forward, detour sideways, or simply procrastinate by the weight of indecision.

The temporal life we coddle will not assure us of conviction, contentment, or resolution. The all-too-human detours of folly provide us the wisdom that engenders self-deprecating humor. Ostensibly, the weight of indecision is carried by all of us. In a larger sense, we must define our sense of fairness, faith, and truth.