Comments on: I Love Touring Italy – Southern Sardinia http://www.whatyouveheard.com/2010/07/i-love-touring-italy-southern-sardinia/ The Blog About Everything And Anything! Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: A. Colin Wright http://www.whatyouveheard.com/2010/07/i-love-touring-italy-southern-sardinia/comment-page-1/#comment-10770 A. Colin Wright Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:25:16 +0000 http://www.whatyouveheard.com/2010/07/i-love-touring-italy-southern-sardinia/#comment-10770 I was interested to read your comments on Sardinia. You may be interested in my recently published novel, Sardinian Silver, which describes a very different Sardinia as it was in the 1960s, including the famous bandit village of Orgosolo. Finding One’s Self on a Romantic Island That Time Forgot Sardinian Silver How many young people have dreamt of self and sexual discovery in a far off, exotic place? Arthur Fraser, the main character of Sardinian Silver by A. Colin Wright, not only dreamt of it, he realized his dream. Recruited to represent a travel firm from his homeland of Great Britain, Arthur arrives in the resort town of Alghero on the Island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea and is instantly bewitched. Based on his own time on Sardinia, Wright’s captivating and oftentimes hilarious novel follows the exploits of a young man trying to find love while assimilating to an archaically orthodox society. “His efforts to recapture the quality and memories of Sardinia, the wine, and his friends from the 1960s have resulted in a novel of superior literary merit. ... Of particular note is Wright’s ability to elicit the morals and mores of 1960’s Sardinia.” -- M. Wayne Cunningham, ForeWord Clarion Reviews “This novel is without a doubt as good as one of Graham Greene's ... Astute readers might be reminded as well of the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell.” --Chicago Center for Literature and Photography “Sardinian Silver is an engaging, entertaining read. In it, author Anthony Colin Wright uses powerful imagery and a vivid cast of characters to bring a compelling story of love--both sought and lost--to impressive life. Wright’s depictions of Sardinia and its lush, flowing features is enough to make the reader pine for an extended stay, and the sheer earnestness of Arthur’s ill-fated pursuits is sure to spark the flames of nostalgic passion in many a lovelorn soul ... Sardinian Silver is a sobering, yet amusing reminder of the emotional fragility that lies within us all. Highly recommended.” --Linda Waterson, Apex Reviews Writers like Wright help map out this rugged landscape of masculine desire and yearning in a concise and evocative prose that subtly lifts the curtain on the softer parts of manhood, ones that countless men have been trained to leave untouched and unexplored ... This erotic desire seems destined to be thwarted by the very foreignness that so beguiles, its contours so rigidly formed by the strict sexual repression of Sardinian culture ... This is a novel that is all about a Sense of Place ... It makes us understand that there was something there, something unique, and something now forever gone. It is sad, like a lost love, a lost friend, a lost innocence. Nonetheless, it is beautiful. --Peter M. Fitzpatrick, US Review of Books From the first word, A. Colin Wright’s love for Italy takes center stage. Instantly, you find yourself walking the streets of Sardinia with Arthur. You feel the sand between your toes as they relax at the beach. With each passing page, it is virtually impossible not to identify with Arthur as he confronts his torrent of emotions and desires in a setting rich with culture and beauty ... If you enjoy youthful romance surrounded by an exotic setting then “Sardinian Silver” is a must have. --Brian Knight Order from any bookstore or at any Amazon site. 
 A. Colin Wright was born and raised in the county of Essex, England. After serving as a linguist in the British Royal Air Force, Wright attended Cambridge University where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1964, he was appointed a professor of Russian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained at Queen’s until his retirement in 1999 and still resides there today. Dr. Wright is married and has two grown sons. I was interested to read your comments on Sardinia. You may be interested in my recently published novel, Sardinian Silver, which describes a very different Sardinia as it was in the 1960s, including the famous bandit village of Orgosolo.

Finding One’s Self on a Romantic Island That Time Forgot
Sardinian Silver

How many young people have dreamt of self and sexual discovery in a far off, exotic place? Arthur Fraser, the main character of Sardinian Silver by A. Colin Wright, not only dreamt of it, he realized his dream. Recruited to represent a travel firm from his homeland of Great Britain, Arthur arrives in the resort town of Alghero on the Island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea and is instantly bewitched. Based on his own time on Sardinia, Wright’s captivating and oftentimes hilarious novel follows the exploits of a young man trying to find love while assimilating to an archaically orthodox society.

“His efforts to recapture the quality and memories of Sardinia, the wine, and his friends from the 1960s have resulted in a novel of superior literary merit. … Of particular note is Wright’s ability to elicit the morals and mores of 1960’s Sardinia.”
– M. Wayne Cunningham, ForeWord Clarion Reviews

“This novel is without a doubt as good as one of Graham Greene’s … Astute readers might be reminded as well of the “Alexandria Quartet” by Lawrence Durrell.”
–Chicago Center for Literature and Photography

“Sardinian Silver is an engaging, entertaining read. In it, author Anthony Colin Wright uses powerful imagery and a vivid cast of characters to bring a compelling story of love–both sought and lost–to impressive life. Wright’s depictions of Sardinia and its lush, flowing features is enough to make the reader pine for an extended stay, and the sheer earnestness of Arthur’s ill-fated pursuits is sure to spark the flames of nostalgic passion in many a lovelorn soul … Sardinian Silver is a sobering, yet amusing reminder of the emotional fragility that lies within us all. Highly recommended.”
–Linda Waterson, Apex Reviews

Writers like Wright help map out this rugged landscape of masculine desire and yearning in a concise and evocative prose that subtly lifts the curtain on the softer parts of manhood, ones that countless men have been trained to leave untouched and unexplored … This erotic desire seems destined to be thwarted by the very foreignness that so beguiles, its contours so rigidly formed by the strict sexual repression of Sardinian culture … This is a novel that is all about a Sense of Place … It makes us understand that there was something there, something unique, and something now forever gone. It is sad, like a lost love, a lost friend, a lost innocence. Nonetheless, it is beautiful.
–Peter M. Fitzpatrick, US Review of Books

From the first word, A. Colin Wright’s love for Italy takes center stage. Instantly, you find yourself walking the streets of Sardinia with Arthur. You feel the sand between your toes as they relax at the beach. With each passing page, it is virtually impossible not to identify with Arthur as he confronts his torrent of emotions and desires in a setting rich with culture and beauty … If you enjoy youthful romance surrounded by an exotic setting then “Sardinian Silver” is a must have.
–Brian Knight

Order from any bookstore or at any Amazon site. 


A. Colin Wright was born and raised in the county of Essex, England. After serving as a linguist in the British Royal Air Force, Wright attended Cambridge University where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1964, he was appointed a professor of Russian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained at Queen’s until his retirement in 1999 and still resides there today. Dr. Wright is married and has two grown sons.

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