The Minor Outsider

By: Ted McDermott

Narrated by: Chris Ragland

Ed and Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking and partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely and looking for love, they connect despite their profound differences: Ed is brooding, ambitious and self-destructive, living in denial of a mysterious tumour spreading from his limbs to his brain. Beautiful Taylor is a pure soul, positive, full of hope and emotional generosity.

Their difficult relationship is intense, exciting yet doomed from the start, complicated further when Taylor falls pregnant. As Ed resists the harmony she brings to his life, Taylor's need to protect herself and their child also grows, until a dramatic finale.

Ted Mc Dermott's stark writing speaks truthfully and with a touch of dark humour for and to today's generation of young people trying to find hope in what feels to many like an existential void.

The Minor Outsider will be heard as the young literary voice of our dark times.

©2016 Ted McDermott (P)2016 Audible, Ltd

Fast and bitingly tragic

An enrapturing book that will keep you up all night listening. Ed is a neo antihero, with a quick mind and fast wit. A great book if you want some intellectual wanderings with your engaging plot.