The Disillusioned
In 2004, the owner of ITEX - David W Scott finished authoring The Disillusioned which was published by Fraser Books of Masterton, New Zealand and distributed by Nationwide books in NZ and Australia.
NOTE: The author is now seeking submissions for international representation and distribution. Contact The Disillusioned Author for details.
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Back Cover Blurb
The Disillusioned is a ruthlessly honest memoir of a young man who writes both searingly and disarmingly about the highs and lows, the perils and promise of our times.
The Disillusioned documents the struggle all too common for recent generations: yearning to find a sense of worth and a purpose to their lives against the backdrop of abuses rife in modern society and the duplicity of political systems which favour the rich and powerful despite the hollow rhetoric that promises something else.
The Disillusioned encompasses three decades, beginning with the impressionable child indoctrinated with the propaganda of Thatcher's Britain and suffering sexual abuse, a lack of role models and any sense of belonging. It is a gripping story of obsessive ambition, discrimination, sex, scams, suicidal impulses, alcoholism, the search for love, loss and the quest for redemption in New Zealand.
It is David Scott'ss story, but also the story of a disillusioned silent majority; the story of young people bogged down with debt and disillusionment; the story, too, of the increasing dangers facing our children in a materialistic world where family bonds and values are sacrificed for high incomes and status.
Abbreviated Media Reviews
Transcript: Wairarapa Times Age (NZ) September 2005
Reviewed by Margaret Chistensen
An autobiography while not out of one's 20's. Surely only a Martin Amis would have the daring - yet David Scott's The Disillusioned digs deep into a life crammed with action, begun, consciously in the Thatcherite years as they impacted on his home community of South Shields...
Scott sets down with a caustic wit the virtues of the North East, its loyalties among his friends, and its deprivations. His most fervent attachment to a lost love, Kerry, killed in a motor accident, evokes his capacity for a depth of feeling and pain which obviously lies beneath the surface Don Juanism, the alcoholic immolation.
Scott leaves his story with an unanswered question as to where to next for himself and his young son. The Disillusioned could well be a study text for anyone close to the addiction and other problems of those whom Gordon McLauchlan calls the Misfit Generation. It is not for the easily shockable reader. Others will acknowledge it as a fine, honest piece of work.
Transcript: Southland Times Ltd (NZ) 18 December 2004
Reviewed by Helen Blasland
... Hopefully he has achieved financial and emotional stability, certainly the story of his battle to obtain them is compulsive reading and a warning for us all.
Details of ISBN, publisher, contacts and other links
email: TheDisillusionedAuthor@gmail.com
web: http://thedisillusioned.way.to
ISBN: 0-9582332-8-4
Paperback with flaps
240mm x 170mm
320 pages
RRP $34.99
Publication date: last week September 2004
Publisher: Fraser Books, Chamberlain Road, RD8, Masterton, New Zealand
Distributor: Nationwide Book Distributors, P O Box 4176, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel: 03 366 9559; Fax: 03 366 4801.
Email: info@nationwidebooks.co.nz
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