The Mercedes Variation
by Chris Banner
Price: $3.99 USD. 81390 words.
Published on February 24, 2010. Fiction.
The Mercedes Variation is a love story set against the backdrop of people who went `back to the land" in the 1960s, with 'flower power' values. Mercedes and her friends reject consumerism and corporate hierarchies and live the traditional rural lifestyle. Mercedes gets help building her tepee from her farmer neighbor who is seduced by her earthy nature.
Location: Canada
Member Since: Feb. 24, 2010
Chris Banner
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Chris Banner was raised on the edge of the Cotswold Hills in the west of England.
Years later as the publisher and editor of a rural newspaper in Eastern Ontario, he recorded the decay of an established rural society. Inspired by Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, these circumstances became the background for his love story, `The Mercedes Variation’.
Chris Banner has an extensive career as a journalist and writer. He was a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen, a regular free lance writer for several Maclean Hunter magazines, including ` Driver Owner’ and `Bus and Truck’ and Publisher and Editor of The Lanark Era, one of Canada’s oldest weekly newspapers. He also co-owned and founded `Anthos’, an eastern Ontario Arts journal.
He moved to Canada’s west coast in the 1980’s and became a reporter and columnist for the Victoria Star and a freelance writer for Monday Magazine. He edited and photographed for `On The Waterfront’ a monthly maritime journal, later edited `Coastal Echoes’, an environmental journal and regularly contributed to `Cosmic Debris’ a Vancouver Island Music magazine. He has also contributed political commentary to the Victoria Times Colonist and `Impact’ magazine in Florida.
He was a finalist in the British Columbia Writer’s Festival Competition and his short story `Flight’ was published by Laughing Willow Books in `The Air Between Us’ – ISBN 0-9698975-0-2.
Years later as the publisher and editor of a rural newspaper in Eastern Ontario, he recorded the decay of an established rural society. Inspired by Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, these circumstances became the background for his love story, `The Mercedes Variation’.
Chris Banner has an extensive career as a journalist and writer. He was a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen, a regular free lance writer for several Maclean Hunter magazines, including ` Driver Owner’ and `Bus and Truck’ and Publisher and Editor of The Lanark Era, one of Canada’s oldest weekly newspapers. He also co-owned and founded `Anthos’, an eastern Ontario Arts journal.
He moved to Canada’s west coast in the 1980’s and became a reporter and columnist for the Victoria Star and a freelance writer for Monday Magazine. He edited and photographed for `On The Waterfront’ a monthly maritime journal, later edited `Coastal Echoes’, an environmental journal and regularly contributed to `Cosmic Debris’ a Vancouver Island Music magazine. He has also contributed political commentary to the Victoria Times Colonist and `Impact’ magazine in Florida.
He was a finalist in the British Columbia Writer’s Festival Competition and his short story `Flight’ was published by Laughing Willow Books in `The Air Between Us’ – ISBN 0-9698975-0-2.
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1950s
adventure
award winner
back to the landers
basic values
colombia
drama
fbi
hippies
historical
holland
hotel polski
hudsons bay company
jewish
leon gildin
love
love story
medellin
murder mystery
mystery
nautical fiction
nazi
parksville
rcmp vancouver island sooke
rural transformation
schooners
sea story
seal hunting
tepee
tofino
vancouver island
victor jacobson
victoria
victoria bc
warsaw
warsaw ghetto
wwii