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Arc of the Comet, a lyrical, evocative examination of promise, potential and loss, follows Conor Finnegan, a handsome, charismatic, athletic young man, and Tom McIlweath, a shy and insecure Everyman desperately seeking harmony and acceptance. Over the course of several years, their fates overlap as Finnegan learns the lessons of hubris --through a brilliant college career and then on to Capitol Hill--imposed by an unwillingness to compromise his ideals, while McIlweath struggles with his own fuzzy and indistinct future. First loves, lost loves, friendships crafted in the crucibles of shared space and shared pressures defined their journey. In the process, they come to separate conclusions that place them once again in disparate places, with disparate expectations of what comes next.

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Wonderful. Luminous. Arc of the Comet is a precisely rendered, vastly conceived masterpiece. --Owen Thomas, Author of The Lion Trees Arc of the Comet by Greg Fields is a modern literary classic. Fields's style is that of an old writer's soul. --Bill Evans, Murder at Broadcast Park Had Arc of the Comet not been a brilliant, lyrical novel it could have easily been a song. The kind you would hum all day long. Bravo, Mr. Fields. --David Welch, Talk Show Radio Host

"""Wonderful. Luminous. Arc of the Comet is a precisely rendered, vastly conceived masterpiece."" --Owen Thomas, Author of The Lion Trees ""Arc of the Comet by Greg Fields is a modern literary classic. Fields's style is that of an old writer's soul."" --Bill Evans, Murder at Broadcast Park ""Had Arc of the Comet not been a brilliant, lyrical novel it could have easily been a song. The kind you would hum all day long. Bravo, Mr. Fields."" --David Welch, Talk Show Radio Host"

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Greg Fields has established a reputation as an articulate voice of the human condition. He has won recognition for his written work in presenting the plight of marginalized young people through his tenure at the Global Fund for Children, and is the co-author with Maya Ajmera of Invisible Children: Reimagining International Development from the Grassroots, published by Palgrave Macmillan in July 2016. He has had articles published in the Harvard International Review, as well as numerous periodicals, including The Washington Post and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He has presented at and participated in numerous symposia, including Stanford University's Global Philanthropy Forum, The Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Award seminar, the Synergos Institute's University for a Night at the United Nations, the International AIDS Conference and the European Foundation Centre's general assembly. He has also been an invited participant at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria. Since 2009 he has been President and Senior Advisor of Philanthropy Directions International, a philanthropic consulting firm in Northern Virginia. His fluid yet precise style has caught the eye of other writers, including Pat Conroy, who offered a jacket quote for Arc of the Comet shortly before his passing in March 2016, and Fergal Keane, award-winning journalist for the BBC.

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