Living Without Blood by Graeme Daniels

Co-protagonists and old friends Eric Metcalf and Richard Barnes are thirty-something men in an early stage of estrangement from one another. Both are struggling with early-to-mid adulthood: women, career disappointments, the distance of fathers. Eric is solipsistic yet brave; Richard externalizes with drugs, women, and betrays friends.

When Eric chooses a radical change in career, he contemplates severing a long-standing dependency upon his family but, in so doing, draws intensified concern due to a self-destructive past. Meanwhile, the alcoholic misadventure of his father leads that character to enter psychotherapy: the subsequent self-reflection enables an honest but dangerous reciprocity within the family.

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (August 20, 2009)
• ISBN-13: 978-1441547156

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