![]() ![]() In his mid-fifties, Brinkman is content with his life botany is his life’s over-riding passion.īrinkman has always been a mild man, expounding the virtues of politically correct behaviour and maintaining a low profile but his life changes when he refused, from his own liberal principles, to stand up for “God bless America”, played at a high profile baseball game. ![]() The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up is a satire on American culture, a life seen through a journey of self-discovery undertaken for the novel’s main protagonist, Arnold Brinkman. Despite many of his short stories already having been published, Appel found it difficult to find a publisher for his debut novel at home saying, “American publishers appeared to fear the political content of the work and several of them admitted this candidly or even asked me to `sanitize’ the novel.” Appel is a bioethicist, essayist and fiction writer. Jacob M Appel won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012 for The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up. ![]()
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