Writer Amanda Hall Publishes Novel

Amanda Hall, who graduated from Randolph Union High School in 1998, is a novelist and cultural critic who live in Saxtons River.

Hall’s nonfiction articles on health and aesthetic issues have been featured in The New Individualist, and her first novel, “Endurance Test,” recently published by Lulu.com, is now available at Amazon.com.

“I was involved with drama and music in Randolph, as well as with Chandler Music Hall,” Hall recalls. “I frequently appeared in the Fourth of July musicals at Chandler, including ‘Showboat,’ ‘Anything Goes,’ and ‘Camelot.’ I majored in literature in college, graduating from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2004, and am highly interested in philosophy, and fiction which incorporates a riveting plot with important ideas.”

She describes “Endurance Test,” as “plot-driven fiction that deals with a crucial issue: quality of life. In the book, a physician is suddenly torn between his professional code—the Hippocratic Oath—and his terminally-ill wife, who asks him to violate it for her sake. He is confronted with a dire question of medical ethics: Is it mere survival he is sworn to protect, or human existence? Is there a difference?”

Hall is currently at work on her third novel. Information about her literary projects is available at her website: https://sites.google.com/site/novelistamandahall/.