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The Reincarnation of Linda Lopez (novel). The final volume of the trilogy that opens with Beneath the Western Slopes and continues with Love Is Starving For itself. Many characters from those two books are reincarnated to take their place among a cast of townspeople consumed by its memory of a girl in white who once ran away with the carnival, who never came back. Here is this author's ultimate expression of how the forces of love and loss and longing unfold in a town "poised between the western slopes on one side and the sea on the other, several dusty streets and a single square, perhaps the lonely dream of its inhabitants and nothing more, surely unremarkable enough to elude the attention of God." Completed. 561 manuscript pages. All rights available.
The Simple Rules of Life (stories) The opening volume of The Brale Chronicles, this story suite follows several generations of a Canadian family from its immigration to Regina in 1900 to its move west in the 1940s to the small British Columbia town that gives name to this projected series of books. The emphasis falls on two quartets of family sisters, from successive generations, whose secrets are explored through story, myth and fable. (The Simple Rules of Life serves as a prequel to 1995's The Lost Oasis, in which one branch of this family leaves Brale in the 1970s to lose itself wandering the world.) Portions of The Simple Rules of Life have appeared in Descant, Canadian Forum, Grain, and Exile. Completed. 196 manuscript pages. All rights available.
New and Selected Stories (stories) Seven new stories and twenty-six essential earlier stories are shaped into a volume that celebrates a quarter-century of accomplishment at the same time that it stands as its own organic, cohesive work of fiction. Here are award-winning stories which, often over a period of years, have been purified to their essence (none keep their originally published form; all have been further fulfilled); here are new stories that extend and deepen this author's investigation into the truth about love. The quintessential Patrick Roscoe story collection. Completed. 378 pages. All rights available.
Untitled (novel) The second book in The Brale Chronicles, set in 1962: Lena, a member of the family's older quarter of sisters, tells a story to Madeleine, one of four nieces who make up the younger quartet. Once Lena saw a woman drown herself in the river that runs through Brale. Or she imagines she did. Or she has "gone off"--as they say all the women in this family do with age, as each of Lena's three sisters in her own way has--to find herself lost in a story of ritual drowning set in the village of stick huts and open fires from which she and her sisters were born. In progress.
Untitled (novel) The third book in The Brale Chronicles traces various responses that are evoked by a series of family deaths during the 1950s. ("We're dropping like flies," complained Lena.) By this point in the Brale books, the town has become a place of dream and fantasy even as it remains very much rooted in the real. The sisters who inhabit this landscape move simultaneously through a mythical past and through the rough tumble of daily life. In progress.
The Lonely Dream: A Manifesto (non-fiction). This work is made up of a series of "communiqués" which present Patrick Roscoe's journey toward and experience inside and movement beyond the laboratory of love Portions of this manuscript have appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly and Wascana Review. In progress.
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