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name: Lyle Closs
about: I started writing when I was 15, about the time I started climbing. I have written and published four books on Amazon: articles on climbing and mountaineering; a Western; a historical fiction about Tasmanian convict cannibals; and a non-fiction about an expedition to K2. Now focusing on literary fiction.I read history and literature. My favourite books include Lermontov's A Hero of our Time, Tolstoy's The Cossacks, Kerouac's On the Road, Miller's Black Spring, Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Sholokov's And Quiet Flows the Don.BOOKS Hidden Wounds is a literary late life love story if you can excuse the alliteration. Head Wounds is a novella describing a polar bear attack and the horrifying aftermath. My climbing-related stor I started writing when I was 15, about the time I started climbing. I have written and published four books on Amazon: articles on climbing and mountaineering; a Western; a historical fiction about Tasmanian convict cannibals; and a non-fiction about an expedition to K2. Now focusing on literary fiction.I read history and literature. My favourite books include Lermontov's A Hero of our Time, Tolstoy's The Cossacks, Kerouac's On the Road, Miller's Black Spring, Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Sholokov's And Quiet Flows the Don.BOOKS Hidden Wounds is a literary late life love story if you can excuse the alliteration. Head Wounds is a novella describing a polar bear attack and the horrifying aftermath. My climbing-related stories written occasionally, as and when the desire came, make up Climbing Glass. My first novel The Cannibal Trail (originally published as And now I am Alone), a fictional imagining of the escape by eight men from the brutal Sarah Island penal colony in Tasmania, and the survival of Alexander Pearce by eating his fellow escapees one by one as they traversed the dense bush and high mountain ranges of Tasmania's West Coast.My next novel, A man named Revenge, came from too many (or perhaps too few) Saturday afternoons watching TV Westerns while the rain fell in England. K2 North Ridge 1990 is the previously untold - except in a few short articles at the time - story of the 1990 K2 expedition.More books are in the works - some already written, others under way. Literary fiction is now my main focus. ...more