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Bill Lloyd is a novelist who writes about the pursuit of meaning in a world marked by uncertainty and misdirection. A native New Yorker and long-time resident of California, he received his doctorate from U.C.L.A. and served for many years as Professor and Chair of the Geography Department at California State University Fullerton. Several years ago he left academia and began to devote more time to his writing. He divides his time between the high desert city of Albuquerque, New Mexico and an old stone house in Olonzac, a small town surrounded by vineyards in the Languedoc region of southern France. The author of three novels, Searching for Cibola, The Solitude Myth, and Dramatics, he is currently working on a historical and geographical journey through the Languedoc region of southern France.
Here is a copy of Bill Lloyd's Academic Vita.
At fifty years of age Lawrence is at a crossroads. An expert in probability and statistics, he finds himself confronted by a combination of improbable events: his wife Rachel has left him and his close friend John is dead. He abandons his home in Los Angeles and moves to a small house in the mountains above Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he delves into his past, searching for kernels of insight much as a miner might search for nuggets of gold. Aided by his occasional lover Miranda, his daughter Abigail, and his shrink Angel, he struggles to connect his disparate memories into a coherent narrative that he hopes will help him understand the changes that hazard has brought to his life. Along the way he discovers that the truth can be as elusive as the Seven Cities of Cibola, the mythical land sought by Coronado when he, too, came to New Mexico more than four hundred years ago. Genre: literary fiction. Length: approximately 49,000 words.
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All truth is subjective. At least that is what David believes as he sets out to change his life. A New Yorker in his early thirties, he breaks up with Hannah - the woman he's been with since college days - and moves to Paris to work for an international aid agency. He enjoys the challenge of his new job and the understated love affair he embarks upon with the quintessential Parisian Colette, but at some point his carefully scripted story goes awry. After returning from a brief vacation he begins to experience memory lapses. He visits the enigmatic Dr. Schlichter who advises him to seek rest in the town of Saint-Jude located somewhere in the south of France. As he struggles to regain control of his life he keeps bumping into people who seem to know him better than he knows himself, including the lovely Celeste who encourages him to confront the deeper implications of his missing memories. She leads him to the point where he must decide what is real and what isn't in a world full of contradictions and illusions. Genre: literary fiction. Length: approximately 50,000 words.
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Bill Lloyd's third novel, Dramatics, is a study of personal identity and role playing. The story centers on Allen, a writer from Los Angeles, who becomes involved in an experimental theater production during a summer spent in the south of France. The focus of the action is the interplay among the three principal characters: the introspective writer Allen, the accomplished actress Mireille, and the devotee of experimental theater, Charlie. The drama unfolds at a magnificent chateau in the Languedoc region of France where Charlie is creating his latest masterpiece, a highly unusual improvisation that combines minimal direction with ample room for experimentation and doubt. In Charlie's world nothing can be taken for granted, and by the time he has finished staging his play the line between life and art is permanently blurred. Genre: Literary Fiction. Length: approximately 67,000 words.
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 Collioure, France |
 Sea Cliffs |
 Waiting for Ulysses |
 Mediterranean |
 Oak Trees |
 Beach Towel |
 Blue Shutters |
 Canal du Midi |
 New Mexico Winter |
 Los Angeles |
 Winter Sunset |
 Two Masks |
 My Muse |
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