2009's Separate From the World
The Story
Separate
from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one
that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study
of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that
rejects any outside influence.
P. L. Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both
gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and
the “English” as they live inside or outside each other’s
orbits.
About the Author
Paul
L. Gaus was born and raised in Ohio, and he has lived in Wooster, Ohio
for the past 31 years with his wife Madonna. He retired recently as
the Benjamin S. Brown Professor of Chemistry at The College of Wooster,
and Chairperson of the Chemistry Department. Paul took an interest in
writing fiction in 1993, and with the advice and encouragement of author
Tony Hillerman, he began working in the summers to write mystery novels
set in Holmes County, Ohio, among the Amish. The first of Gaus’s
mysteries, Blood of the Prodigal, An Ohio Amish Mystery, Ohio University
Press, was published in June of 1999, and a total of six novels have
appeared in this series: Broken English, 2000, Clouds without Rain,
2001, Cast a Blue Shadow, 2003, and A Prayer for the Night, 2006. The
sixth novel, Separate from the World was published in July of 2008
To read more about the author visit these sites:
Ohio University Press. Swallow Press
Listen to a 30 minute reading by the author:Paul Gaus reads from Separate from the World
Other Works by the Author
Blood of the Prodigal, Ohio University Press, 1999
Broken English, Ohio University Press, 2000
Clouds Without Rain, Ohio University Press, 2001
Cast a Blue Shadow, Ohio University Press, 2003
A Prayer for the Night, Ohio University Press, 2006
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Listen to excerpts from interviews of P.L. Gaus for The (Batavia, N.Y.) Daily News