The One

About the Book

Vincent Miles sat on the low stone seawall feeling wholly restored. To what exactly he had been restored, he couldn’t say. He only sensed that he had felt like this before—light and content and nothing more. If he tried to picture something more, then he would surely see a world of sorrow and doubt. There was none of that here, not now. The view was everything and everything was the view. From here he could only move on, to some kind of summit, a climax coming his way. . . .

About the Author

Alex Alvarez was born in Miami, Florida and is of Cuban-Colombian descent. He majored in English literature at University of South Florida and concentrated his graduate studies on Henry James at Florida Atlantic University. Immediately aft er graduation, Alex spent two months traveling Europe before settling in Poland, the germ of his fi rst novel, Warsaw Central. He is currently a teaching faculty at New York City Colleges and Universities.