Carrell’s ‘The Pinks and the Kinks’ delves into psychotic mind
MADISON – Dr. Robert Carrell started writing two manuscripts but “fell out of love with them.” Luckily, he has completed his first book, “The Pinks and the Kinks.”
The book’s protagonist, Dr. Edward Pascal Casell, “shares the stage with Ave, a man with a past,” Dr. Robert Carrell said. (CONTRIBUTED)
The book’s protagonist, Dr. Edward Pascal Casell, “shares the stage with Ave, a man with a past,” Carrell said. Casell is a doctor in a dead-end at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he is subject to drug screens.
Treating a patient, Casell decreases “industrial-strength, anti-psychotic meds and discovers a visitor from the past – 8 million years in the past,” Carrell said. “The extremely important messages from the past are crucial to our civilization and its destiny.”
The book’s title uses slang that Carrell conceived as ethnic references “to the whites and blacks, applicable to other Homo sapiens subsets also, specifically oriental,” he said. “Our racial situation is turned on its head in this story.”
Since getting a library card at 10 years old, Carrell has been an avid reader since grade school. “After lots of mental doodling, I decided to write something different, not better, perhaps, but different. It took nine-plus years to write while engaging in full-time medical practice in Decatur and Madison,” he said.
Carrell hopes “The Pinks and the Kinks” will stir readers’ hearts “to peek over the edge of their rut and consider different possibilities.”
His vision of success is for multitudes of people to read his book. He will donate all proceeds from book sales to charity.
As a retired physician, Carrell “bounced around over the years but wound up in general medicine, the most stimulating area for me. I never knew what would walk in the door.” He is board-certified in anesthesiology and has passed the written section of otorhinolaryngology boards.
Carrell and wife Wanda live on the Tennessee River south of Athens and plan to return to Madison in 2014. Their son Todd died in 2006.
Carrell has started on his next book, “Time.” For more information, email to rcarrell1@charter.net.
