A.P. Eberhart 
Trouble in Paradox 
A Creative Memoir

Trouble in Paradox is the shocking and poetic confession of a young man tiptoeing along the elastic borders of sanity, the shadow of suicide chasing
his every thought. Fed up with the tragic chaos of the civilized world, I packed my dog, the necessary survival supplies, a small arsenal of guns, and
enough booze to stay drunk for a month, and escaped to the wild and beautiful Paradox Valley in western Colorado.



The book that has emerged from this sojourn is a gritty and irreverent comedy with tragic undertones, full of paradoxes and philosophical
horseplay, a healthy dose of humor and polemic, history, politics and social critique, all wrapped up in a pretty package of high-octane wilderness
adventure. After six weeks alone in the desert, heartsick and angry but still laughing, I fled that lunatic wilderness homeward to begin writing.

Über den Autor

My name is Aaron and I’m an alcoholic—by choice. I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with my memories. I have been walking the wrong way down a one
way street for most of my life; living out on the fringes and testing the edges to see what I can see—and writing about it. I spend most of my time
buried in books, wandering the wild outdoors, scribbling in my journals, or drunk on a barstool. I am 32 years old, work a futile and tedious part-time
job, and sporadically take classes at the University of Colorado, purely for the sake of interest (almost ten years in college and no degree on the
horizon—but I try to remain modest.) I have been called many things: a redneck intellectual, a vulgar poet, a shrewd fool, a bigoted liberal, a closet
moralist, a hopeless romantic, a cynical idealist, an honest liar, and (my favorite) the weeping comedian. Slightly neurotic with a painfully average
libido, I am subject to a lust for dive bars, cheap cigars, classical music, desolate deserts, pretty girls, and long moonlit walks off short planks.
Though I have been writing for years, Trouble in Paradox is my first coherent, book-length piece—first of many. My ambitions lean toward literary
fiction, and my first novel is currently fermenting in my febrile head.