John Warley has recently published his second novel entitled The Moralist, A Tale of People and Events in Centerfied, Texas During a Year Recently Concluded.
Just when you thought America was falling off a cliff, along comes Fran to tell it like it was and is. We meet her in the ICU, where she has tracked down her affluent, elusive landlord who is recovering from a well-earned heart attack. Fran’s goals are modest—get the sink fixed, acquire health insurance, steer clear of a lecherous boss, raise good and productive kids. But for Fran and for millions of Americans struggling with the twenty-first century, those simple goals prove ever more difficult to attain. Her chief asset is the ability to speak her mind plainly, and she does so to lawyers, health care representatives, school officials and more in the entertaining town of Centerfield, Texas. There are many deeply serious books written each year. This is not one of them.
John Warley is an award-winning writer and the author of Bethesda’s Child, a novel of politics and genetics. In 2011, his essay “Lingering at the Doors” was published in This I Believe on Fatherhood, a collection of sixty essays selected from over 100,000 submitted to the popular National Public Radio series This I Believe. A native South Carolinian, John grew up in Yorktown, Virginia, before graduating from The Citadel, which he attended on a football scholarship. He took his law degree from the University of Virginia. He served in the army before joining the Newport News Commonwealth Attorney’s office as a prosecutor, after which he entered private practice. He and his wife, Barbara, have three sons born in Newport News and a daughter born in Seoul, Korea. In the mid-nineties he spent two years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he completed a novel, A Southern Girl, and taught U.S. business law at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Queretaro and Irapuato. He and Barbara currently divide their time between Beaufort, S.C. and San Miguel, Mexico. In addition to Bethesda’s Child, which contains a preface by his friend and Citadel classmate Pat Conroy, and A Southern Girl (soon to be published), John is currently at work on The Home Guard, historical fiction set in Beaufort during the Civil War.
The Moralist
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