Born in England, he has lived in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Vancouver, the Okanagan, Mexico and the Sunshine Coast. Al presently resides on Vancouver Island with his daughter, where he works in media, is writing another novel, and edits www.wildernesstravels.com Contact: al@wildwestcom.com
To see samples of Al's photography click here. To order his novel After The Funeral www.amazon.ca. For writing samples: http://www.prrb.ca or http://www.wildernesstravels.com or writing services.
In After the Funeral, a man wakes up with no memory of his own identity or past. Has there been a murder and is he, in fact, the murderer? A surrealistic noir thriller, the novel takes place in contemporary Vancouver –– or, perhaps, only in the mind of the protagonist. Al MacLachlan’s deeply internal tale, reminiscent of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy, plays brilliantly upon the illusion of reality as amnesiac Rory Jesson attempts to reconstruct the details of his recent life. In this gripping first novel, Al MacLachlan probes the paranoia that leads to insanity, when everything familiar suddenly becomes strange.
It is also a topical look at the global reach and media concentration of giant communications corporations. Al uses the filmic techniques he honed working in television and film, stir-fried with the influences of existentialist and absurdist French literature he read as a drop-in student travelling around universities in three countries.
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Journalist, documentary writer/director, author, photographer and music video director Al MacLachlan has written freelance articles for The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Straight and other publications. His video of Barney Bentall's Nothing To Do was nominated for a Caras award, and he has produced and directed documentaries for Ducks Unlimited, and other organizations. 