THREE IN ONE
A TRILOGY BY LARRY GAUDET
Faith
This short story collection dives into family and romantic melodrama, dystopian futurism and satirical portraits of the corporate mindset. Enlivened by a provocative rendering of the contemporary forces shaping human psychology and cognition, Gaudet’s stories capture the disorienting essence of our futuristic present day while anchored in an enduring idea best captured by Faulkner: the past is not dead, it’s not even past.
Heavenly Point
Sabine Lafleur is heiress to a billion-dollar fortune built by her
father, the disgraced founder of a drug company that cornered the opioids market. At her coastal retreat in rural Nova Scotia, Sabine secretly assembles activists, patent lawyers, lobbyists, disinformation experts and criminals, including her ne’er-do-well boyfriend, a local man, Hector Gallant, all working to stop dangerous or ineffective drugs from reaching the world. Equal parts murder mystery and ghost story, Heavenly Point features the voice of a dead Sabine, in the afterlife, intent on exposing the complex forces that profit from our desire for health but only make us sicker.
The Book of Corporate Revelations
The Book of Corporate Revelations maps the dark, atherosclerotic heart of organizational culture. In exploring the systemic forces that harm employee wellbeing, the book provides compelling insight into the mind control games that organizations play using strategies long employed to unify totalitarian mass movements and cults. Energized by Gaudet’s empathy for people trapped, and often traumatized, by the pressures at work, The Book of Corporate Revelations is ideally meant for those trying to protect their better selves in today’s corrosive workplace.
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