David Sunshine: No Communication in the Communications Industry
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 23, 2013 -- Set in the decade of MAD MEN, David Sunshine takes on the complexities of the 1960s in America by exploring the television industry that the FCC Chairman of that time indicted as “a vast Wasteland.”
Says Morrow Wilson, “The book follows in the footsteps of Dickens and Mark Twain, whose best work is full to overflowing with colorful characters who either scare the hell out of you or make you laugh out loud.
“I wanted to write a novel that exposed mindlessness, hypocrisy and pretentiousness in high places. By describing things as they were, there was no need for satire. Because,” adds Morrow Wilson, “plenty of that reality was comedy.”
David Sunshine is funny; it is heart-breaking; it is even encouraging. It tells the tale of an innocent young man who comes to the big city and goes to work for the most famous and highly-regarded TV producer/talk show host in the land, who proudly (if privately) boasts of being a successful con man.
“The 1960s were a complicated time,” says Morrow Wilson. “Playboy Clubs and freedom riders; Woodstock and political assassinations; the sexual revolution and race riots; sex, drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll and an unwinnable jungle war. It was a time when optimism turned to fear. David Sunshine is a testament to its protagonist’s ability to press on against chaos, confusion and obstacles that become ever more difficult.”
David Sunshine is fact-based – Morrow Wilson was there -- as the first Associate Producer of David Susskind’s pioneering TV talk show, as an independent TV, radio and New York City stage producer, as a successful broadcasting, advertising and publishing executive and, for the last three decades, a New York novelist, actor and singer.
The dilemma of his protagonist is how to maintain not only his optimism, but his integrity, as he copes with the brutal confusion that rules his world.
The novel begins with an epigram: “Heroism is a profession.”
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