South of Bixby Bridge Author:Ryan Winfield Fresh out of drug rehab, an ambitious, young stockbroker struggles through the holidays with much more than sobriety when he is seduced into a high-finance game of sex, deception, and blackmail by a charming, sadistic San Francisco hedge-fund owner and his intoxicating wife. — What People are saying about South of Bixby Bridge: — ?Ryan Winfield ha... more »s been preparing himself all his life to produce the wonder to which this first novel ascends. It is a glorious debut for an artist who has never stopped inhaling all he sees or feels empathically for others during his own long climb out of the dark. He obeys Goya's caution that to be able to draw a man plunging off a roof the artist must complete the drawing before the jumper hits the ground and that requires thousands of practice drawings and the willingness to 'fall with the man all the way.' In SOUTH OF BIXBY BRIDGE Ryan 'falls with the man' and both, thank God, get unstuck from the pavement and live to tell the tale. As one of Ryan's many friends and teachers I commend - without reservation and to every one who reads or wants to write - this moving, funny, sexy, infinitely human book.?
--Stewart Stern, Screenwriter "Rebel Without a Cause"
"There is a Gatsby-esque quality to South of Bixby Bridge?where the innocent protagonist wants the Golden Girl, who lives in a big house, not a house on Long Island in the Roaring Twenties, but a house in the Bay Area today. The protagonist in Bixby Bridge is Trevor Roberts, the golden girl is Tara Valombrosa, who's married to nasty, ruthless Paul, whose multi-billion dollar hedge fund is a spear aimed at the heart of California. In a suspenseful moment, where you hold your breath, Paul buys Trevor: he needs this lad to camouflage the evil intent with a cloak of innocence.?
--Robert J. Ray, co-author of The Weekend Novelist and author of the Matt Murdock mysteries, including Murdock Cracks Ice.
?The writing is superb in this novel?fast, laced with the speed of Kerouac, filled with the imagery of a poet, loaded with symbols you don't know are symbols until it's too late to call for help. Ryan Winfield has tapped into the creative power of some techniques I wish more writers would use. This is a good read.?
--Jack Remick, author of Blood and Lemon Custard.« less