Noah Mullette-Gillman's The White Hairs

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Hello! I'd like to tell you all about my new novel. It's available digitally at Amazon, Smashwords, and Lulu.com, as well as in paperback at amazon, lulu, barnes&noble.com, and lots of other places!

I haven't had a tremendous amount of sale yet, but I have had some generous reviews (most of which are on amazon.) I hope a few of you will at least take the time to download the free sample and check it out!

I'm here if anyone has any questions, or would just like to say 'hi!'

The White Hairs is a work of spiritual mythology. Somewhere on a white and snowy mountain, is a young creature learning how to leave his body and travel the world inside of the wind. The wonders and terrors that he will see are the beginning of an adventure that will feel familiar to anyone who has been fed upon by life, and wanted to fight to get back the joy and soul that they were once able to take for granted.

"Farshoul watched as the long white hairs on his arms became translucent. He watched as they faded away. Soon he could see through the skin and bone of his arms to the ice beneath him. The frozen water that he could see through his phantom arm seemed more real than his own body. He watched as the others blurred in his vision, their white fur becoming indistinguishable from the snow around them. They appeared to disappear. Then Farshoul began to move." - Noah K. Mullette-Gillman

A few recent reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic in the making, July 27, 2010
By Kipp Poe Speicher "Kipp Poe Speicher" (Canton, Ohio) -
This review is from: The White Hairs (Kindle Edition)
A few books come along that you read and then pick up and read again, this is one of those books. A book i will return to many times, it captures the magic and adventure that all story tellers try to achieve. with elements of mystical creatures and the gift of Out of Body Experience.

Masterfully written with details that put you right into the story that takes you on this spiritual journey. I can't wait to see more from this author

5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritual Quest, a Reader's Reward, July 18, 2010
By Math Puppy -
This review is from: The White Hairs (Paperback)
The White Hairs is a profound and powerful read, an engaging and emotional parable that lingers in the mind long after the last page has been turned.

Mullette-Gillman's writing is spare yet deceptively intricate, weaving a tale of spiritual discovery that is at once otherworldly but heartfelt. As readers we follow the Yeti-like Farshoul and the far-ranging adventures of his soul, from exploration to exultation, from joy to fury to a cold indifference perhaps worse than death.

With Farshoul we travel tremendous distances in time and space, between gods and monsters, amongst mortal men and the mysterious White Hairs themselves. Will Farshoul finally descend into despair or redemption, a final disengagement or an ultimate enlightenment?

I won't spoil any endings as this is a journey all readers should take through the pages of Mullette-Gillman's fine work. Let this author's exquisite imagination lead your spirit, perhaps reflecting the quest of your own soul in the trials of this enduring creature.

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly original spiritual adventure, July 13, 2010
By F. N. - See all my reviews
This review is from: The White Hairs (Paperback)
The White Hairs opens with an astral walk through the ether that eventually leads the main character to disillusionment and rejection of his society. More importantly, it results in his own self-abandonment as parts of his soul are literally ripped out and never come back, leaving him empty, emotionless, and unable to feel the joy of life after the third and final walk ends in a battle with a hellhound for his own soul.

The writing style throughout is smooth, evenly-paced, and easy to read. The only difficulty I found was the font face, which was initially a bit difficult to focus my eyes on, but that disappeared quickly as the narrative took hold. Despite a detailed description of a ritualized killing, which is explained as being necessary only "every so often," the story doesn't explain how the larger than human-sized creatures could survive deep in snow-covered mountains with little vegetation. Farshoul's mother enters, and leaves, the story but a father is never mentioned, and little is made of how the society in general functions. There is also a seemingly anachronistic descriptions of machinery and handguns when Farshoul himself is apparently not familiar with the human world at all outside of the ancient stone walls near his home. Yet none of these minor points detract from the main narrative flow, which is essentially the spiritual journey of a single character isolated from others of his kind.

While reading the descriptions of the world which Farshoul inhabits, I couldn't help picturing the images from Hayao Miyazaki's classic "Shuna no tabi" (The Journey of Shuna). Both stories have a high fantasy, almost fairy-tale-like feel; both take place in a high mountainous area; both involve a solitary journey of one young man who encounters violence and death, yet feels helpless to prevent them; both meet mythical giants who seem to hold the secrets of existence itself. Finally, both characters are all but shattered from the journey and barely survive the return trip to their homes. But while Shuna sacrifices himself for the sake of seeds for his village and spends no time pondering spiritual matters, Farshoul seeks something far more ethereal and intangible than physical necessities: he seeks what is true about himself, his people, and the world at large, and that is why the story does not end with his return. Instead, he must journey again to find that which he was and still could be. In that sense, the White Hairs owes less to the Himalayas and more to the Caucasus, with echoes of Gurdjieff's "self-remembering" reverberating through the steps of its main character as he gropes towards a spiritual reawakening.

Overall, one of the most original stories I've read in a while. A promising first offering from a new talent.

http://www.amazon.com/The-White-Hair...DateDescending

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If everyone doesn't mind, I thought I'd bump this thread up! There has been such a positive reaction here to my free ebook The Song of Ballad and Crescendo, I don't want you all to forget about this one!