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Ervin Shane and The Sunshine Motel

By: Mark Warford
Narrated by: John Lee
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“The miracle of loneliness is that sooner or later it makes you act otherwise.”

Illuminated by extraordinary tenderness, Ervin Shane and The Sunshine Motel is a poignant tale about origins and endings told in the plain speak of a man tired of living a hand-to-mouth existence in the racist, post-WWII south.

In 1951, Ervin Shane boarded a Greyhound headed to wherever the winter sun was warmer. A thousand miles later, a layover in a West Texas bus station and a chance browsing of the want-ads led him to curtail his journey and take up as the custodian of The Sunshine Motel - a neon-bathed oasis situated halfway between somewhere and somewhere else, offering wayfarers, “…clean sheets, a warm blanket and a soft pillow for those lost souls bound for nowhere in particular.”

And so begins the chronicle and construction of a humble life; a beautiful and haunting story of classic simplicity; a story of indefinite echoes.

©2023 Mark Warford (P)2023 Mark Warford Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Fiction
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This book took me back to childhood travels through the SW deserts in the late 70’s…..driving for miles, we’d find a solitary motel- with a tiny pool…..stripped back & basic - an oasis of peace that money can’t buy. This book is so beautifully narrated by John Lee & MW’s finest work to date- it felt as though this was written with the desert sands around his boots and running through his veins. With relationships that stayed with me long after the story ended, it really touched my heart. This felt so stripped back & honest- let the road out there just take you & it will lead you where you need to be. A tale of enduring love & ultimate gratitude

Left me longing for the desert & a Sunshine motel.

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